Biology GCSE
selective herbicides
What selective herbicides means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of selective herbicides
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Synthetic auxins formulated to make broad-leaved weeds absorb higher quantities than narrow-leaved cereal crops, inducing uncontrolled rapid growth that exhausts the weeds and causes death without harming food crops.
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