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Download PDF It’s a world first and spun out of one of the biggest weed research projects the UK has seen. CPM assesses a ‘pregnancy-test style’ kit for diagnosing blackgrass resistance. This adds science into the frame of blackgrass assessments. By Tom Allen-Stevens It’s long been said there’s no quick fix for resistant blackgrass, arguably one of UK Farming’s biggest problems and recently estimated to cost the UK £0.4bn and 0.8M tonnes of wheat every year. But now there’s a quick scientific measurement for it, and it’s as easy and as cheap to carry out as a pregnancy test. BReD (Blackgrass Resistance Diagnostic) is a lateral-flow device that will tell you how resistant your blackgrass is in just 10 mins. The kit costs £40+VAT, which includes enough devices and mixing solution for five separate tests. What’s more, there are 400 kits that are now being made available for free, and CPM readers are encouraged to apply. The new test, launched at Cereals 2018, is a world first, and one of the outcomes of the Blackgrass Resistance Initiative (BGRI), a £2.8M BBSRC and AHDB-funded project that completed two years ago. Developing an in-field diagnostic test was one of the core aims of…
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