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Weed management continues to face many challenges, including
herbicide resistance, invasive species, climate change and how best
to deploy the range of non-chemical control methods available. To
tackle these challenges, integrated weed management (IWM) needs to
evolve to embrace a more holistic, landscape-based agroecological
approach. Advances in integrated weed management provides an
authoritative review of the latest developments in IWM. The book
covers new research on understanding weed ecology as a basis for
more sustainable control, as well as developments in technology to
better target IWM techniques. This collection also offers examples
of how advances are being applied in practice for particular crops.
Edited by Professor Per Kudsk, Aarhus University, Denmark, Advances
in integrated weed management will be a standard reference for weed
scientists, researchers in crop protection, agronomists, farmers,
companies supplying/manufacturing pesticides, and government and
private sector agencies supporting sustainable agriculture.
This specially curated collection features five reviews of current
and key research on improving crop weed management. The first
chapter highlights the need for alternative weed control strategies
that will preserve herbicide efficacy, as well as agricultural and
environmental sustainability. The chapter discusses the role of
integrated weed management (IWM) in achieving this through the
implementation of practices that can improve plant health, such as
crop rotations and no-till farming. The second chapter considers
the use of IWM in barley cultivation. After an initial outline of
more traditional control methods, primarily the use of herbicides,
the chapter provides an example of the successful implementation of
IWM in barley in the form of two case studies. The third chapter
reviews the impact of weeds on maize grown under temperate
conditions in the United States and Europe. It provides a summary
of current weed management systems and discusses the issue of
herbicide resistance in weed varieties. The fourth chapter reviews
the use of IWM in rice cultivation for improved crop productivity
and performance and offers detailed discussions on the variety of
techniques that can be incorporated into an IWM strategy to achieve
this. The final chapter presents a number of weed management
options and considerations for sorghum, and discusses the critical
period for weed control to occur.
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