{"id":1410,"date":"2012-06-22T16:54:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T04:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2012-06-22T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T04:54:30","slug":"revenge-of-the-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/revenge-of-the-weeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the Weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plant pests are evolving to outsmart common herbicides, costing farmers crops and money<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/06\/Stormy-Wheat-Fields.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1411\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/06\/Stormy-Wheat-Fields-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/06\/Stormy-Wheat-Fields-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/06\/Stormy-Wheat-Fields-500x274.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/06\/Stormy-Wheat-Fields.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a story suited for a Hollywood horror film, yet it\u2019s also a tenet of evolutionary biology. Introduce a toxin to a system, and you inevitably select for resistant survivors. These few individuals gain a reproductive advantage and multiply; sometimes they can\u2019t be stopped with even the most potent chemicals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read on for some sobering thoughts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-scientist.com\/2012\/05\/20\/revenge-of-the-weeds\/\">http:\/\/the-scientist.com\/2012\/05\/20\/revenge-of-the-weeds\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant pests are evolving to outsmart common herbicides, costing farmers crops and money &#8220;It\u2019s a story suited for a Hollywood horror film, yet it\u2019s also a tenet of evolutionary biology. Introduce a toxin to a system, and you inevitably select &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/revenge-of-the-weeds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,485,487],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-resources","category-genetics","category-plants-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}