How else did my weedy investment in low-risk shares end up high risk and down the drain?
Given that wild and weedy rice do not share the ancestral sh4 shattering substitution characteristic of O. rufipogon, it is possible that wild and weedy groups do not share the same morphological shattering mechanism.
That is hardly a risk for the main types of genetically engineered crops grown in the United States — soybeans, corn and cotton — because they generally do not have wild, weedy relatives in this country.
While this is not a concern on roadsides, abandoned farmlands, vacant lots, and other low-value land, weedy grasses do seriously devalue cultivated areas such as lawns, pastures, and croplands.
Five pints of roughish cider do terrible things to weedy teenagers unused to hard drinking and I can recall little of what ensued apart from a long sleep in a telephone box.
But it also had a lot to do with the slightly weedy feel of Gahan's voice on the band's early singles, and the fact he dared to express his emotions more like a girl than, say, for instance, Lemmy.
Doc also bonds with Jordan, who suggests a lucky bet, but Weedy does not.
What is Horgan – mock-raising her eyebrows throughout – doing fronting this weedy, generic stuff?
"Angiosperms, particularly weedy angiosperms, can do particularly well in these sorts of circumstances; they can regenerate very fast and take advantage of such a regime," Professor Scott told BBC News.
"What do you mean, weak, limp and weedy?
