Publications by authors named "Tim B Creed"

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  • - Lolium multiflorum (Italian ryegrass) is found in Oregon as both a weed and a crop, and herbicide-resistant populations have developed due to chemical management practices.
  • - A glyphosate-resistant population identified in Yamhill County shows a nine-fold increase in resistance to glyphosate compared to a susceptible group, with no known amino acid mutations linked to resistance.
  • - The resistance is linked to a significant increase (30-fold) in copies of the EPSPS gene, marking the first instance of this type of genetic amplification in glyphosate-resistant L. multiflorum in Oregon.
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Illumina MiSeq is the current standard for characterizing microbial communities in soil. The newer alternative, Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION sequencer, is quickly gaining popularity because of the low initial cost and longer sequence reads. However, the accuracy of MinION, per base, is much lower than MiSeq (95% versus 99.

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