- glyphosate
- glyph·o·sate
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glyphosate
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Glyphosate — Glyphosate … Wikipédia en Français
Glyphosate — Chembox new ImageFile = Glyphosate 2D skeletal.png ImageSize = ImageFile2 = Glyphosate 3D balls.png IUPACName = [(phosphonomethyl)amino] acetic acid OtherNames = Section1 = Chembox Identifiers CASNo = CASRN|1|0|7|1|8|3|6 PubChem = 3496 SMILES =… … Wikipedia
glyphosate oxidoreductase — An enzyme from the micro organism Ochrobactrum anthropi, which catalyses the break down of glyphosate. If the encoding gene (called goxv247) is inserted and properly expressed in a plant, these plants become tolerant of the application of… … Glossary of Biotechnology
glyphosate oxidase — An enzyme which catalyses the break down of glyphosate, discovered in a strain of Pseudomonas bacteria which were found to produce unusually large amounts of the enzyme. The gene responsible has been incorporated into a variety of crop plants to… … Glossary of Biotechnology
glyphosate — noun Etymology: perhaps from International Scientific Vocabulary glycine + phosph + 1 ate Date: 1972 a systemic organophosphate herbicide C3H8NO5P used to control herbaceous and woody weeds especially on croplands … New Collegiate Dictionary
glyphosate — gly·phos·ate (glī fŏsʹāt) n. A white compound, C3H8NO5P, that is soluble in water, used as a broad spectrum herbicide. [glycine + phosphate.] * * * … Universalium
glyphosate — noun A generic name for N phosphonomethyl glycine, the active ingredient of several herbicides, such as , that inhibit a plant growth enzyme … Wiktionary
glyphosate — [ glʌɪfə(ʊ)seɪt] noun a synthetic compound which is a non selective systemic herbicide. Origin 1970s: from glycine + phospho + ate1 … English new terms dictionary
glyphosate — /ˈglaɪfoʊseɪt/ (say gluyfohsayt) noun a herbicide, N (phosphonomethyl)glycine, which, on application to foliage, moves through the plant and prevents it from producing an essential amino acid, thus inhibiting plant growth; used widely for weed… …
glyphosate — An active ingredient in some herbicides, killing plants by inhibiting the activity of plant enolpyruvyl shikimate 3 phosphate synthase … Glossary of Biotechnology
