National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds Proceedings of a Workshop (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Welcome--Charles J. Arntzen
Welcome--Charles J. Arntzen
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A planter would go over it, and every time the planter hit a little button on this wire, the hopper would open and release a few seeds that would grow and make a hill of corn. It took my dad two days or more to plant a plot of land that today would take an hour and a half with a modern corn planter, but the end result for my dad was a beautiful corn field that looked similar to a checker board -- all the rows were in perfect alignment.
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The idea was that if exposure to herbicides could trigger weeds' selection-pressure response2 and thereby change their receptors to herbicides to block binding and herbicide action, the same change could be made in crops using biotechnology approaches. During this time, DuPont and Monsanto both were working on developing crops that combined superior crop-protection chemistry with superior genetics.
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