glyphosate

Noun

Meaning

glyphosate (countable and uncountable, plural glyphosates)

N-phosphonomethyl glycine, the active ingredient of several herbicides that inhibit a plant growth enzyme.

Examples

If you look at the graph of the growth of G. M. O. s, the growth of application of glyphosate and autism, it's literally a one-to-one correspondence. And you could make that graph for kidney failure, you could make that graph for diabetes, you could make that graph even for Alzheimer's. Vandana Shiva

After planting sugar beet seed, weeds emerge in fields and growers apply glyphosate to control them. Source: Internet

And most likely for the glyphosate renewal process, there will be a request to ECHA to work on the reclassification. Source: Internet

Dow, Bayer CropScience, Syngenta and Monsanto are all developing seed varieties resistant to herbicides other than glyphosate, which will make it easier for farmers to use alternative weed killers. Source: Internet

He commented on the recent announcement by Mexican President Obrador that Mexico will gradually phase out the use of glyphosate by the time the current administration ends in late 2024. Source: Internet

Farmers are limited to a few products like paraquat (Gramoxone; Group 22), glufosinate (Liberty; Group 10) or glyphosate (Roundup; Group 9) for cover crop termination. Source: Internet

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