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Crops Engineered...(Brief article)
Crops engineered to resist herbicides such as Roundup are an important tool for fighting weeds. Because Roundup is losing some of its effectiveness, scientists are looking for ways of giving crops resistance to other herbicides. Researchers at the University of Nebraska, writing in the journal Science, have now found a way of ...
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