URBANA, Ill. — When Patrick Tranel was hired as the first molecular weed scientist at the University of Illinois 20 years ago, he couldn’t have imagined how relevant his work would be to herbicide resistant weeds these days.
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Pat Tranel, University of Illinois professor of molecular weed science, and Darci Giacomini, post-doctoral research associate, have done groundbreaking research with waterhemp and Palmer amaranth.
Pat Tranel, University of Illinois professor of molecular weed science, and Darci Giacomini, post-doctoral research associate, discuss waterhemp samples at the university greenhouse.
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