Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally
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...Annual legume (pulse) crops are usually the weak link in the rotation because of their poor weed competitiveness combined with few registered herbicides or dependency on a few herbicide SOAs such as ALS inhibitors....
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...Additionally, herbicidal properties of many antimalarial drugs suggest a possible source of compounds having novel SOAs [19]....
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...Collectively, these new or adapted technologies and processes used in herbicide discovery offer some optimism for new herbicide SOA by 2025 [20]....
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...Research with natural phytotoxins has demonstrated several potential novel herbicide target sites; these compounds may lead to discovery of new SOAs [18]....
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...Glyphosate usage now surpasses that of any other herbicide SOA [10,11]....
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...Glyphosate (GLP) is the stated active component of Roundup® (RU), the most broadly used GLP-based herbicide (GBH) worldwide (Benbrook, 2016)....
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...…GBH has massively increased in recent years through the introduction of GLP resistant genetically modified (GM) crops (e.g., soy, maize, canola, sugar beet, cotton) and in pre-harvest desiccation processes in some crops especially cereals such as oats and wheat (Benbrook, 2016; Myers et al., 2016)....
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...Given these incongruous results, the unprecedented and widespread use of glyphosate over the past 40 years, and its predicted increase in use globally (Benbrook, 2016), studies are needed that examine the potential ecological effects of long-term glyphosate use on the soil microbial community....
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...John Franz, identified the herbicidal activity of glyphosate in 1970, and a formulated end-use product called Roundup was first sold commercially by Monsanto in 1974 [2]....
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