Whats the Story, Morning Glory?
For many of us, morning glories are cheerful flowers with a cheerful name. But to farmers, they are a nuisance weed that affects crop yields, and gets tangled in harvesting equipment. “Sometimes weeds can completely take over the crop rows,” says Regina Baucom, a doctoral student in the genetics department at the University of Georgia. “Now what this poses to the agriculturist is an intense problem in terms of harvesting. He can’t get his combine, which is basically his or her harvester, into the crops to harvest the soybeans because the morning glories…will bind up the machine and made it very difficult for them to go through the rows.
