Roundup the Years | Roundup Ready 2 | Intellectual Property Issues | Herbicide Resistance | Future Problems and Solutions |
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What is 1901
In what year was Monsanto started?
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What is increased yield potential
Roundup Ready 2 offers the same effective weed control, simplicity and flexibility benefits of the Roundup Ready system in addition to what?
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What is 2015
The last patent on the first-generation Roundup Ready soybean trait will expire in what year?
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What is glyphosate
It's the active ingredient in Roundup Ready.
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What is Celiac Disease
Glyphosate is argued to be responsible for what increasing disease among people?
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What is 1960
This is the year the agriculture division was started.
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What is Canada and the United States
In what two countries is the Roundup Ready 2 technology available?
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What is Canada
In what country did the Roundup Ready trait already expire?
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What is True
True or False, Roundup Ready is a post-emergent herbicide application.
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What is Tryptophan deficiency
Glyphosate suppresses the shikimate pathway which leads to what deficiency?
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What is 1976
The year Roundup herbicide made its debut.
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What is 4.2
On average, how many more bushels per acre do Roundup Ready 2 soybeans produce?
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What is True
True or False, other companies can stack traits along with the Roundup Ready trait after the patent expires.
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What is Agrobacterium
Roundup Ready crop lines contain a gene derived from what organism that encodes a glyphosate-tolerant enzyme, the so-called CP4 EPSP synthase?
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What is True
True or False, mixing herbicides and using residuals is a method for combating herbicide resistant weeds
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What is 1996
Roundup Ready soybeans were introduced, providing farmers with in-seed herbicide tolerance to Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides.
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What is False
True or False, the Roundup Ready 2 soybean seeds can be saved in 2014 to be planted in 2015.
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What are seed companies
After 2015, who determines if soybean seed containing the Roundup Ready gene will be offered to farmers?
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What is Ala-100
This single residue in the active site renders the CP4 EPSP synthase insensitive to glyphosate?
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What is the weed seed bank
Methods such as cutting weeds down before they germinate or using machinery to grind seeds from weeds destroys what bank?
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What is 2008
Monsanto introduced Roundup Ready 2 soybean technology in this year.
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What is a trait patent
Roundup Ready 2 soybeans are what type of patent?
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What are variety patents and plant variety protection certificates
After the Roundup Ready trait expires, what other two forms of intellectual property protects the Roundup Ready trait?
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What are tryptophan, tyrosine, and phenylalanine
Glyphosate suppresses EPSP synthase, the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of what three amino acids?
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What are cover crops and crop rotations
What two approaches that were used back in the day are researchers and educators alike trying to bring into practice once again?
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