Herbicide
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Herbicides, also commonly known as weed killers, are substances used to control undesired plants, also known as weeds. Selective herbicides control specific weed species while leaving the desired crop
A field after application of a herbicide
Weeds controlled with herbicide
Herbicides being sprayed from the spray arms of a tractor in North Dakota.
Handicapped children in Vietnam, most of them victims of Agent Orange, 2004
Glyphosate
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Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide and crop desiccant. It is an organophosphorus compound, specifically a phosphonate, which acts by inhibiting the plant enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3
Herbicide
…following rainfall causing the aforementioned contamination. Atrazine is thus said to have "carryover", a generally undesirable property for herbicides. Glyphosate had been first prepared in the 1950s but its herbicidal activity was only recognized in the 1960s. It was marketed as Roundup in 1971. Since the…
Glyphosate used as an alternative to mowing in an apple orchard in Kastelbell-Tschars, Italy
Landscaping company in Oklahoma applying a weed control product that contains glyphosate
Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri)
Horseweed