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Round-Up Resistant Weeds Pose a Threat to Farmers

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A certified crop adviser and agronomist looks for weeds resistant to glyphosate.

For 15 years, Eddie Anderson, a farmer, has been a strict adherent of no-till agriculture, an environmentally friendly technique that all but eliminates plowing to curb erosion and the harmful runoff of fertilizers and pesticides.

 

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Pokeberries Could Be the Key to Spreading Affordable Solar Power Around the World

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Pokeberries hold the secret to affordable solar power.

The weeds that children smash to stain their cheeks purple-red and that Civil War soldiers used to write letters home – could be the key to spreading solar power across the globe, according to researchers at Wake Forest University’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials.

 

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