Any thoughs on Bioherbicides?
http://www.grainews.ca/2010/04/05/ecofriendly-herbicide-awaits-appr...
That environmental pressure was the initial impetus for creating a program to look at developing biological herbicides, says Russell Hynes, a research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Research Centre at Saskatoon. “It was primarily an environmental concern,” he says. “It was initially an academic interest in the 1990s, but it’s now moved into a full-fledged priority. The development of bio-pesticides is really growing globally.” And the Saskatoon Research Centre is home to Canadian research efforts.
But what exactly is a bioherbicide? “It’s a herbicide that, rather than using synthetic chemicals, uses natural products or living micro-organisms to manage weeds,” says Hynes. “bioherbicides could be derived from any natural living organism or plants themselves and applied in a very similar manner to conventional synthetic herbicides.”
Staff at the Saskatoon facility have focused on attempting to develop bioherbicides that mirror the effectiveness of synthetic products currently in use that control a certain group of weeds and don’t affect commercial crops. But allowing producers to apply them using existing equipment is also important. With the current variety of synthetic products and application methods, though, that gives researchers a lot of flexibility.
“Some of our bioherbicides can be applied to the soil where they will suppress germination of the (weed) seed,” explains Hynes. “Other bioherbicides can be applied to the foliar parts of the weed after it has germinated.”
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Marrone Bio Innovations- GreenMatch Herbicide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSuBECtlkRw
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BioProdex's Dr. Raghavan "Charu" Charudattan: Faces of Technology
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Benoît Marguet talks about bio-dynamic treatments for his vineyard
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Weed Control with Bio-herbicides - Principle investigators: Dr. Hannah Mathers and Luke Case
http://basicgreen.osu.edu/sites/default/files/RS105.pdf
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