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The source for this article has a definite agenda (as does everyone). I would like to see a few more facts.
Whatta load of nonsense.
BTW, you might want to check out “naturalnews.com” and the guy behind it, “Mike Adams.” He’s a marketing guru. He was involved in marketing Y2K hype when that was fashionable.
Are these proof of evolution? Is it “God’s will” that these super weeds become resistant to eradication measures?
(Not trying to be contentious or overly Darwinian, but hoping to expand the conversation a bit. No offense intended toward any group.)
Uh, oh. It’s the “Day of the Triffids”.
I just read Weed Science for the centerfolds.
Uh huh...
Hey, there should be a lot of commercial uses for a tougher than steel Plant fiber.\s
All I know is to NEVER buy organic top soil, esp. if it’s from out of state. I made that mistake this spring and am now battling some crazy strain of invasive stalk-like grass. Never had it before and it’s only in areas where I put the organic top soil.
Weeds develop resistance due to misuse of glyphosates, not because Monsanto developed RoundUp.
A pefect source material for biofuels!
This is HUGH.
First let’s clear up some BAD science in the first line:
“... mutated to develop resistance to popular herbicides”
Acquired traits are not inherited.
Organisms do not change their genes in response to environmental stress. For example, giraffes do not produce offspring with genes to grow longer necks to better reach increasingly higher leaves on taller trees. The truth is parents with genes for long necks pass along those genes to their offspring who then grow long necks— survive better and longer and produce more fertile offspring. The genes have to be present in the population to permit NATURAL SELECTION to occur due to environmental stress.
Mutations, which are almost always harmful in real life, UNLESS ENGINEERED, only become predominant in the population if they are ‘successful.’
In this instance **IF** a mutation occurred in a seed or seeds of SINGLE GROWTH of a strain of weeds in location A, this ‘super bug’ weed could arise from that and spread. And that takes a while. MRSA is an analogous example of that.
The mere presence of a herbicide does NOT cause mutations to arise that make the weed population resistant to the herbicide. Rather what happens is that only those specimens that ALREADY were resistant were able to live to maturity and produce fertile seeds with a genome akin to the parent(s).
**IF** the herbicide can be shown to be a mutagen, that is a different story. But keep in mind most often ‘random’ mutations result in stillborn, early-dead or infertile offspring.
There is NO willful act of mutation in nature. there is speciation, and there is mutation. Environmental stress (aka herbicides) WILL drive a shift in the gene prominence/population of surviving organisms. THAT is NOT mutation.
Now I will read the article ;-)
Does it have any use? Gasohol, fabrics, paper, or plastics?
“A superweed ate my baby.”
Look out, here come the giant tumbleweeds.