June 4, 2025
At first this research just looks like another resistance mechanism described, but wait, there’s more. This story has a few twists and turns. Some…
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March 26, 2025
Breaking grass dormancy – sandpaper in the cold and dark In my earlier days I prided myself on my punctuality. Always on time, and many…
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January 10, 2023
Written by: Jessica Scholle From all of us at AHRI, Happy New Year! As we start a fresh new year, we wanted to take this…
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January 17, 2022
Written by: Jessica Scholle Despite the challenges COVID-19 presented in 2021, our researchers continued their research and published throughout the year. From the identification of…
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August 11, 2021
Written by: Peter Newman AHRI insight has a bit of a twist this edition. Peter Newman composed and performed a rap. You can check out…
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December 18, 2020
Despite the challenges 2020 presented, there continued to be excellent research which was published throughout the year. In this post we have collated our top five most read AHRI insights and our top five most listened to podcasts for 2020.
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December 1, 2020
AHRI researcher, Dr Roberto Busi is no philosopher, but he has recently published some significant research that shows that Aristotle knew a thing or two about herbicide resistance despite being born over 2000 years before the first herbicide. Amazing! The message from this research – never assume that a herbicide mixture will fail even if there is resistance to both components of the mix.
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November 3, 2020
Some recent research by a former AHRI researcher Jingbo Li and others shows that glyphosate resistance changes this. They studied two populations of barnyard grass with relatively low-level glyphosate resistance and found that when 2,4-D Amine or Ester was added to the tank with glyphosate, barnyard grass control was greatly reduced. They went on to discover that this is due to an effect on uptake and translocation.
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September 7, 2020
They said it couldn’t be done – climbing Everest, flying to the moon and even deep-frying Mars bars. We were also told that we couldn’t reverse herbicide resistance. In the majority of cases, the experts are right – herbicide resistance is permanent, and we thought that was the case for all resistant weeds.
Until now…
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July 13, 2020
Welcome to the highlight reel of AHRI’s recently released blockbuster – ‘Don’t stick to it!’. Set in the labs, glasshouses and fields of this world-leading research powerhouse, and featuring renown giants of the herbicide resistance world – Powles, Busi, Yu and Owen, this latest exposé will have you seriously impressed!
‘Don’t stick to it!’ delves into five years of ground-breaking scientific discovery and its value to Australian farmers in their epic battle against profit-sucking weeds.
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