Blackgrass (Alopecurus myosuroides) resistance has plagued cereal growing in Northern Europe since the early 1980s. In the UK it is reckoned that resistant populations exist on virtually all farms where any blackgrass herbicide has been used regularly.
Modern chemical herbicides have provided effective weed control and raised crop yields. However, they are forbidden in organic food production and organic farmers have to use a variety of alternative methods to control weeds.
Some new herbicide modes of action have been announced recently. So, new modes of action are there to be discovered, although it will be some years before the active ingredients concerned reach the market.
moa uses CDD Vault, a platform from Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc., to archive, mine, and analyze chemistry and biology research data from its herbicide discovery platforms (GALAXY, TARGET, SELECT).
Moa Technology develops safe, effective, and affordable herbicides to combat weed resistance, using proprietary technologies for discovering novel modes of action.
The company offers a one-year paid internship in Oxford, focusing on discovering and elucidating novel herbicidal modes of action using platforms for high-content microscopy, plant genetics, and biochemistry.
