Roundup the Years Roundup Ready 2 Intellectual Property Issues Herbicide Resistance Future Problems and Solutions
100
What is 1901
In what year was Monsanto started?
100
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?
100
What is 2015
The last patent on the first-generation Roundup Ready soybean trait will expire in what year?
100
What is glyphosate
It's the active ingredient in Roundup Ready.
100
What is Celiac Disease
Glyphosate is argued to be responsible for what increasing disease among people?
200
What is 1960
This is the year the agriculture division was started.
200
What is Canada and the United States
In what two countries is the Roundup Ready 2 technology available?
200
What is Canada
In what country did the Roundup Ready trait already expire?
200
What is True
True or False, Roundup Ready is a post-emergent herbicide application.
200
What is Tryptophan deficiency
Glyphosate suppresses the shikimate pathway which leads to what deficiency?
300
What is 1976
The year Roundup herbicide made its debut.
300
What is 4.2
On average, how many more bushels per acre do Roundup Ready 2 soybeans produce?
300
What is True
True or False, other companies can stack traits along with the Roundup Ready trait after the patent expires.
300
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?
300
What is True
True or False, mixing herbicides and using residuals is a method for combating herbicide resistant weeds
400
What is 1996
Roundup Ready soybeans were introduced, providing farmers with in-seed herbicide tolerance to Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides.
400
What is False
True or False, the Roundup Ready 2 soybean seeds can be saved in 2014 to be planted in 2015.
400
What are seed companies
After 2015, who determines if soybean seed containing the Roundup Ready gene will be offered to farmers?
400
What is Ala-100
This single residue in the active site renders the CP4 EPSP synthase insensitive to glyphosate?
400
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?
500
What is 2008
Monsanto introduced Roundup Ready 2 soybean technology in this year.
500
What is a trait patent
Roundup Ready 2 soybeans are what type of patent?
500
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?
500
What are tryptophan, tyrosine, and phenylalanine
Glyphosate suppresses EPSP synthase, the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of what three amino acids?
500
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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