Gillezeau, Christina, van Gerwen, Maaike, Shaffer, Rachel M, Rana, Iemaan, Zhang, Luoping, Sheppard, Lianne, & Taioli, Emanuela, "The evidence of human exposure to glyphosate: a review," Environmental Health, 2019, 18(1), 2. DOI: 10.1186/s12940-018-0435-5. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Despite the growing and widespread…
Benbrook, Charles, "Why Regulators Lost Track and Control of Pesticide Risks: Lessons From the Case of Glyphosate-Based Herbicides and Genetically Engineered-Crop Technology," Current Environmental Health Reports, 5:3, 387-395, 2018, DOI:10.1007/s40572-018-0207-y. ABSTRACT: PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The approval of genetically engineered (GE) crops…
Richard H Coupe, Stephen J Kalkhoff, Paul D Capelc, and Caroline Gregoired, "Fate and transport of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid in surface waters of agricultural basins," Pest Management Science, 2012, 68:1, 16-30, DOI: 10.1002/ps.2212. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine] is a herbicide used widely throughout the…
Purdue Extension, "Corn and Soybean Herbicide Chart," 2013. ABSTRACT: This chart groups herbicides by their modes of action to assist you in selecting herbicides 1) to maintain greater diversity in herbicide use and 2) to rotate among herbicides with different…
K. Neil Harker, John T. O’Donovan, Robert E. Blackshaw, Hugh J. Beckie, C. Mallory-Smith, and Bruce D. Maxwell, "Our View," Weed Science, 2012, 60, DOI: 10.1614/WS-D-11-00177.1. Perhaps the incidence and impact of glyphosate-resistant weed species are now great enough that real solutions…
Benbrook, C, “Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the U.S. – the First Sixteen Years,” Environmental Sciences-Europe, 2012, 24:24. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant and insect-resistant crops have been remarkable commercial successes in the United States. Few…
John M. Pleasants and Karen S. Oberhauser, "Milkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population," Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2012, 6:2, DOI: 10.1111/J.1752-4598.2012.00196.X. ABSTRACT: 1. The size of the Mexican overwintering population of monarch butter-…
David A. Mortensen, J. Franklin Egan, Bruce D. Maxwell, Matthew R. Ryan, Richard G. Smith, "Navigating a Critical Juncture for Sustainable Weed Management," BioScience, 2012, 62:1. ABSTRACT: Agricultural weed management has become entrenched in a single tactic—herbicide-resistant crops—and needs greater…