The effect of glyphosate applied directly to asparagus spears on their growth and crowns regrowth capacity was studied during the 2001 and 2002 seasons. Homogeneous asparagus crowns, cultivar UC 157 F1, were planted in ...

BACKGROUND Stimulation of plant growth by low doses of a toxic compound is defined as a hormetic effect. Exposure of plants to low doses of glyphosate can cause stimulatory effects on growth or other variables. Sugarcane ...

Glyphosate is the herbicide with the greatest participation in the world market, and it has been used intensively in agriculture for over 30 years, especially because of its relatively low cost and high effectiveness on ...

Glyphosate is noted for being non-toxic in fishes, birds and mammals (including humans). Nevertheless, the degree of genotoxicity is seriously controversial. In this work, various concentrations of a glyphosate isopropylamine ...

Glyphosate is the most used herbicide worldwide and glyphosate-tolerant soybean planted in almost all cultivated areas. In Brazil, the area cultivated with transgenic soybean reaches more than 90%. Recently, the application ...

We investigated the potentially different effects of one of the most commonly used glyphosate formulations in Argentina, Glifosato Atanor, and the technical-grade glyphosate on the pigment content, as biomass indicators ...

Lolium multiflorum (Italian ryegrass) seeds suspected of being resistant to glyphosate were collected from fruit orchards at two locations, San Bernardo (SB) and Olivar (OL), Chile, that had been treated an average of three ...

Glyphosate or N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine is a broad spectrum non-selective systemic herbicide, used to kill weeds, mainly in soybean crops. Nowadays there are many controversies about the intensive use of these herbicides ...