1.5 - Weedy rice with Whitney Brim-Deforest
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Today Whitney Brim-Deforest and Sarah Marsh will be sitting down to talk about weedy rice in California. Weedy rice is the same species as cultivated rice, Oryza sativa, which contributes to the difficulty in controlling it; any herbicide that would kill weedy rice would also hurt the crop. Weedy traits of weedy rice including seed shattering and long dormancy. What that means is that the seeds fall off the panicle really easily and can remain dormant in the soil seedbank for years before germinating.
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