Are superweeds an outgrowth of USDA biotech policy?
Subtitle: hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780160893117; 9780160892332
Subjects: Herbicide resistance; Herbicide-resistant crops; Transgenic plants
Notes: "July 28, 2010"--Pt. 1.

"September 30, 2010"--Pt. 2.

Shipping list nos.: 2011-0411-P (pt. 1), 2011-0404-P (pt. 2).

"Serial no. 111-158"--Pt. 1.

"Serial no. 111-160"--Pt. 2.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Global impact of biotech crops: environmental effects, 1996-2008; title: Increasing crop productivity to meet global needs for feed, food, and fuel; title: Conservation tillage and plant biotechnology: how new technologies can improve the environment by reducing the need to plow; title: Off-farm income, technology adoption, and farm economic performance; title: Impact of genetically engineered crops on farm sustainability in the United States; title: Simultaneous adoption of herbicide-resistant and conservation-tillage cotton technologies; title: Economics of genetically modified crops; title: Resistance to glyphosate in Lolium rigidum. II. Uptake, translocation, and metabolism; title: Adoption of best management practices to control weed resistance by corn, cotton, and soybean growers; title: Selecting for weed resistance: herbicide rotation and mixture; title: Herbicides used in combination can reduce the probability of herbicide resistance in finite weed populations; title: Evolution in action: glyphosate-resistance weeds threaten world crops; title: Modeling the effectiveness of herbicide rotations and mixtures as strategies to delay or preclude resistance; title: Environmental report: partial deregulation measures for cultivation of Roundup Ready Alfalfa events; title: Avoiding weed shifts and weed resistance in Roundup Ready Alfalfa systems; title: Roundup Ready reality?; title: Understanding Roundup Ready Alfalfa; title: Environmental report: interim measures for cultivation of Roundup Ready sugar beet event H7-1; title: Source for Monsanto's portfolio of technology products, stewardship requirements and guidelines for use.