Shape-shifting carbon ring helps researchers test alternative weed management tactic

8 Jan 2025
Rubber vine
The invasive rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora). Credit: 
Forest & Kim Starr

A compound designed and synthesised by researchers in Australia can stop an invasive plant known as rubber vine from growing for six weeks. The work sheds new light on the little-studied process of herbistasis and explores how researchers could remodel existing herbicides as herbistatic agents.

Read the full story via Chemistry World

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