For example , children of vietnam war veterans exposed to the herbicide agent orange have an increased risk for spina bifida due to epigenetic changes .
例如,由于外遗传变化,越南战争退伍军人的孩子在接触橙色剂这种除草剂后很有可能患脊柱裂。
Farmers pay an extra 5 % to insure a bag of seed , fertiliser or other things like herbicide against crop failure .
农民可以额外支付5%的钱为一袋种子,化肥或者像除草剂一样的其它农用品上份保险,用以防止作物歉收。
What had been sprayed on them was millions of gallons of a herbicide known as agent orange .
橙色剂一种知名的除草剂,曾经数百万加仑的喷射于这片土地。
Biotech crops have been on the market since the 1990s , but traits such as pest and herbicide resistance are easier to engineer because they involve single genes .
Since 1996 , monsanto has held a european patent on genes that give soya beans resistance to the company 's roundup herbicide - specifically the active ingredient glyphosate .
In the new study published in plos biology , worms that made more free radicals or that were treated with a free-radical-producing herbicide actually lived longer than normal worms .
But before you dig out the industrial-strength herbicide to dump into the ocean and reduce the risk of hurricanes , it might be wise to consider the implications .
但在你发现把强力除草剂导入海水能减小飓风威胁之前,最好考虑下对环境的影响。
Nufarm had put out three profit warnings this year after a slump in the price of its key herbicide , glyphosate , while emerald lacked cash to upgrade wells in syria and colombia .
Farmers pay a big premium for seeds containing such genes because they equip plants to , for example , tolerate exposure to monsanto 's popular roundup herbicide or produce their own insecticides .
The researchers then sought to mimic the apparent beneficial effect of the free radicals by treating regular , wild worms with paraquat , an herbicide that works by increasing the production of free radicals .