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the Environmental Protection Agency to let them use propazine, an alternative herbicide to Monsanto's glysophate, which is currently used, to combat a "super weed" that has developed resistance to it. According to the
Weed Science Society of America, these herbicide-resistant weeds were first reported in the 1950s - soon after farmers began using the first major synthetic herbicides - and are on the rise.
It's a case of typical evolutionary processes: A farmer sprays their field with an herbicide, most of the weeds die, a few that are best adapted for the herbicide will live on and reproduce. After repeated herbicide use, these super weeds can actually come to dominate the weed population. Weeds have evolved to be resistant to herbicide after herbicide, starting with synthetic auxins, then triazines, then ACCase inhibitors, then ALS inhibitors and now glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, according to Director of the International Survey of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds Ian Heap, who helps run
Weedscience.com, the central repository for scientifically backed, peer-reviewed herbicide-resistance cases.
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