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• n  a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth

• The trouble was caused, he said, by 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) the miracle weedkiller (PTI, June 30).
• Monsanto sells glyphosate under the name Roundup and a variety of seeds resistant to the weedkiller as Roundup Ready.
• The old reliable weedkiller roams again.

• herbicide
• weed killer

News & Articles

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• Monsanto Says Rogue Wheat Didn’t Contaminate Oregon Seed
  Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, said experimental wheat engineered to survive Roundup weedkiller hasn’t contaminated seed stock in Oregon, where the plants were found growing years after field trials ended.
  June 5, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• John Little in guardian.co.uk
  We spent the first day seeding all the areas around the lamp-posts and verge edges,John says. "They'd been sprayed with weedkiller for years and the bare earth made perfect seedbeds."
• Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett in New Scientist (subscription)
  The UK should oppose the commercial cultivation of the relevant varieties of GM beet and oilseed rape anywhere in the EU using the [weedkiller] management regime tested in the FSEs,said Beckett.