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    Glyphosate (IUPAC name: N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant. It is an organophosphorus compound, specifically...
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  • Glyphosate-based herbicides are usually made of a glyphosate salt that is combined with other ingredients that are needed to stabilize the herbicide formula...
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  • in 2018. Prior to the late-2010s formulations, it used broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicides. As of 2009, sales of Roundup herbicides still represented...
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    more recently, glyphosate resistance has dramatically risen. Marestail is one weed that has developed glyphosate resistance. Glyphosate-resistant weeds...
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    relatively new form of coca that is resistant to a herbicide called glyphosate. Glyphosate is a key ingredient in the multibillion-dollar aerial coca eradication...
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  • in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later, the company became a major...
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    (USDA-APHIS) deregulated glyphosate-resistant sugar beets after it conducted an environmental assessment and determined glyphosate-resistant sugar beets...
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  • ex-Monsanto products such as glyphosate, PCBs and dicamba. In 2020 it paid over $10 billion to settle lawsuits involving the glyphosate based herbicide Roundup...
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  • herbicide product causing cancer. The lawsuit alleged that the exposure of glyphosate, an active ingredient in the Roundup product, caused Dewayne "Lee" Johnson's...
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  • Commercialized GM sugar beets make use of a glyphosate-resistance modification developed by Monsanto and KWS Saat. These glyphosate-resistant beets, also called 'Roundup...
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    only with glyphosate. A "Double Knock" regime with paraquat cleaning-up after glyphosate was predicted to keep all fields free of glyphosate resistant...
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    coca (Erythroxylum coca) that is purportedly resistant to the herbicide glyphosate. The coca plant is the source of the potentially addictive stimulant cocaine...
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    synthetic impurity of glyphosate herbicide. The US EPA limits N-nitrosoglyphosate impurity to a maximum of 1 ppm in glyphosate formulated products. N-Nitrosoglyphosate...
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    coltstail, marestail, and butterweed. It was the first weed to have developed glyphosate resistance, reported in 2001 from Delaware. Erigeron canadensis is an...
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  • December 21, 1929) is an organic chemist who discovered the herbicide glyphosate while working at Monsanto Company in 1970. The chemical became the active...
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    Desiccation can enhance the ripening of a crop. With sugarcane, for example, glyphosate application increases sucrose concentration before harvest. With grains...
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  • posed by the exposure to glyphosate. Regulators in Europe (ECHA, EFSA), Canada, Japan and New Zealand reported that the glyphosate was unlikely to pose any...
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    phosphorus, M. aeruginosa thrives on glyphosate, although high concentrations may inhibit it. M. aeruginosa has shown glyphosate resistance as result of preselective...
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  • Phosphonates have many technical applications, a well-known member being glyphosate, better known as Roundup. With the formula (HO)2P(O)CH2NHCH2CO2H, this...
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    herbicides to prevent resistance. Glyphosate disrupts the ability of most plants to construct new proteins. Glyphosate-tolerant transgenic crops are not...
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  • patented line of genetically modified crop seeds that are resistant to its glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup. In 1996, genetically modified Roundup Ready...
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    presents an attractive biological target for herbicides, such as glyphosate. A glyphosate-resistant version of this gene has been used in genetically modified...
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    plant glyphosate-resistant sugar beet until the Environmental Impact Statement was completed. The second option was to allow growers to plant glyphosate-resistant...
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    research to assess the exposure of glyphosate. AMPA is one of the primary degradation products of the herbicide glyphosate and the related chemical glyphosat-trimesium...
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  • for agrochemical formulations, such as pesticides and herbicides (e.g. glyphosate). Animal fat is hydrolysed to give a mixture of free fatty acids, typically...
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    in the long track record that glyphosate has. It has been very, very extensively studied." Seneff's claim that glyphosate is a major cause of autism and...
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    genetically engineered rapeseed that is tolerant to the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) was first introduced to Canada in 1995 (Roundup Ready). A genetically...
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  • developed by Monsanto for tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the commonly used herbicide Roundup. Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide, which...
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    insertion of a gene owned by Monsanto Company that confers resistance to glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide, also known as Roundup. Although most grassy...
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    herbicide treatments useless for the control of weeds. In particular, glyphosate, which was once considered a revolutionary breakthrough in weed control...
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