Gardeners and homeowners most commonly encounter the troublemakers known as spiny pigweed, redroot pigweed, and Palmer ...

Researchers have sequenced the genomes of Palmer amaranth and other pigweed species, uncovering key mechanisms behind ...

However, since Palmer amaranth, redroot pigweed and waterhemp all fall into the pigweed category, telling Palmer amaranth apart from its cousins can be a challenge. Here are characteristics that ...

Weeds like Palmer amaranth make farming harder and less profitable, and available herbicides are becoming less effective. For scientists to find solutions, they first need to know their enemy. A study ...

Pigweed is one of the most wide-spread weed species in Delaware and the region, infesting vegetable crops as well as grain crops. Pigweed is capable of quickly becoming the dominant species in a field ...

Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and partners have produced complete, chromosome-level genomes for Palmer amaranth, smooth and redroot pigweed. The reference genomes expose ...

“Farmers, for the most part, are doing what the experts are telling them and taking a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to pigweed, but it also includes killing everything else.” Smith farms 3,000 ...