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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â There has been an avalanche of political and COVID-19 pandemic news to keep up with over the past few weeks.
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The proliferation of false stories shared on social media ahead of the 2016 presidential election shined a new light on the issue, according to Jacob Montgomery, a political science professors at Washington University in St. Louis.
Discovering which genes are responsible for male plants could enable new genetic control. By
12/14/2020 Scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness in waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, two of the most troublesome U.S. agricultural weeds. Finding the genes could enable new “genetic control” methods for the weeds, which, in many places, no longer respond to herbicides. Waterhemp and Palmer amaranth are dioecious, meaning they have both male and female plants. “If we knew which genes control maleness and we could make those genes proliferate within the population, every plant in the field would be a male after a few generations, and theoretically, the population would crash,” says Pat Tranel, a University of Illinois weed scientist and lead author on a study in
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URBANA, Ill. - Scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness in waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, two of the most troublesome agricultural weeds in the U.S.
Finding the genes could enable new genetic control methods for the weeds, which, in many places, no longer respond to herbicides. If we knew which genes control maleness and we could make those genes proliferate within the population, every plant in the field would be a male after a few generations, and theoretically, the population would crash, says Pat Tranel, professor and associate head in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois and lead author on a study in
0 accidental call while talking to a hitman. sounds like out of the movies. you won t believe who was on the other end of the call. details coming right up. now, people may still be trapped inside a pub today after a police helicopter crashed into the roof. authorities say at least one person died in the crash last night in glasgow, scotland, but that number could go up. witnesses say the chopper dropped out of a skyline like a stone, right onto the roof, while a concert was going on inside the pub. richard quest has the latest from glasgow. reporter: miguel, the core question of how many people may still be buried in the wreckage behind, no one knows. all we ve been told is that there was one confirmed fatal y fatality, but that that number is likely to rise. all night and into the morning, search and rescue efforts continued after a police helicopter crashed into the roof of the pub filled with friday night revelers in glasgow, in scotland. a local member of parliament, jim murph
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