National summit on strategies to manage herbicide-resistant weeds : proceedings of a workshop / organized by the Planning Committee for a National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

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"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 bring...

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Corporate Authors: National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds Washington, D.C.
National Research Council (U.S.). Planning Committee for a National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Herbicide resistance.
Plants > Effects of herbicides on.
Crops > Genetic engineering > United States.
Agricultural biotechnology > United States.
Physical Description:xii, 54 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Also issued online.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Contents:
  • 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.