Ban on triazine herbicides likely to reduce but not negate relative benefits of GMHT maize cropping

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6980, 2004, Pages 313-316

  Perry, J N ^a   Firbank, L G ^b   Champion, G T ^c   Clark, S J ^a   Heard, M S ^b   May, M J ^c   Hawes, C ^d   Squire, G R ^d   Rothery, P ^b   Woiwod, I P ^a   Pidgeon, J D ^c  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Broom's Barn Research Station   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CROPS; DATA REDUCTION; SEED; WEED CONTROL;

CROP MANAGEMENT; FARM-SCALE EVALUATIONS (FSE);

HERBICIDES;

CYANAZINE; HERBICIDE; SIMAZINE; TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE; ATRAZINE;

CROP PERFORMANCE; HERBICIDE; MAIZE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CROP MANAGEMENT; CROPPING SYSTEM; EVALUATION; FARM SCALE EVALUATION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; GENETICALLY MODIFIED HERBICIDE TOLERANT CROP; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; INVERTEBRATE; MAIZE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED PRODUCTION; UNITED KINGDOM; WEED; WEED ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CROP; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

ATRAZINE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HERBICIDES; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1642617652     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02374     Document Type: Article

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