Weedy Rice Disrupts Rice Yields

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weedy rice herbicide resistance

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Across southeastern US, weedy rice steals herbicide resistance from crop rice

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Weedy rice is a close relative of cultivated rice that infests rice fields worldwide and drastically reduces yields.

To combat this pest, rice growers in the southeastern U.S. have been planting rice cultivars that were tweaked to allow them to apply herbicides that target weedy rice without harming the crop.

But only a handful of years after introduction of herbicide-resistant rice in the early 2000s , Arkansas farmers started reporting that weeds in their fields were becoming herbicide resistant.

Recent CropToWeed Adaptive Introgression has Reshaped the Genomic Composition and Geographical Structure of US Weedy Rice ( Oryza spp.) This study was funded in part through the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) Plant Genome Research Program (IOS-1947609).

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