National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds : Proceedings of a Workshop /

"Preserving the efficacy of herbicides and of herbicide-resistance technology depends on awareness of the increasing resistance of weeds to herbicides used in agriculture and coordinated action to address the problem by individuals at the farm level and beyond. This summit served as a venue to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Planning Committee for a National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds (organizing body.), National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (organizing body.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2012]
Temas:
Herbicide resistance.
Plants > Effect of herbicides on.
Crops > Genetic engineering > United States.
Agricultural biotechnology > United States.
Résistance aux herbicides.
Plantes > Effets des herbicides sur.
Cultures > Génie génétique > États-Unis.
Biotechnologie agricole > États-Unis.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
Agricultural biotechnology
Crops > Genetic engineering
Herbicide resistance
Plants > Effect of herbicides on
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Welcome
  • Herbicide resistance in weeds: what is the nature of the problem?
  • The epidemiology of herbicide resistance
  • The Australian experience of managing herbicide resistance and its contrasts with the United States
  • Best management practices to control and combat resistance
  • Addressing the pressing problem of herbicide resistance
  • Panel 1: The impediments to using best management practices
  • A social science perspective on weed management practices
  • Panel 2: What approaches are most likely to encourage the adoption of best management practices?
  • The land-grant approach.

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