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There has been a considerable, and much-justified hagiography of the use of transgenics in weed science (Duke, 1996). Indeed, the vast majority of transgenic crops cultivated are herbicide resistant crops. They have been exceedingly useful in the selective control of weeds in crops where the same weeds could not be controlled. They have had extreme eco-environmental success in South America, allowing minimum tillage of fragile, erodable soils. This review will not continue the hagiography, as that will not indicate what could be done to develop better crops.
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Gressel, J. (2003). Biotechnological Solutions for Weed Problems — The Next Generations. In: Vasil, I.K. (eds) Plant Biotechnology 2002 and Beyond. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2679-5_21
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