Description
Book SynopsisThis textbook explores aspects of biology and ecophysiology of weeds, weed competition and interference in crops, phytosociological survey, methods of control and weed integrated management. Herbicides are of great importance in weed management and are one of the most widely used pesticide groups for weed control across the globe. Offering a new direction for research that focuses on herbicide behavior in plants, hormesis, evolution of weed resistance to herbicides, and genetically modified crops resistant to herbicides, this book covers the recent research in applied weed and herbicide science.
This book provides essential and updated information on various subjects regarding the advances in herbicide science; and it is intended for professors, undergraduate, and graduate students, rural producers and other professionals involved in the area of applied weed and herbicide science. Agriculturists, analytical chemists, and toxicologists will find this book rewarding.
Table of Contents1. ASPECTS OF WEED BIOLOGY AND ECOPHYSIOLOGY
2. ALLELOPATHY IN WEED CONTROL: PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL MECHANISMS
3. APPROACH TO INTERFERENCE AND COMPETITION BETWEEN WEEDS AND CROPS
4. PARAMETERS OF THE PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY TO EVALUATE THE ABUNDANCE, DISTRIBUTION AND DIVERSITY OF THE WEED COMMUNITY
5. METHODS OF CONTROL AND INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF WEEDS IN AGRICULTURE
6. CLASSIFICATIONS, SELECTIVITY AND MODE OF ACTION OF HERBICIDES
7. RETENTION, ABSORPTION, TRANSTION AND METABOLISM OF HERBICIDES IN PLANTS
8. HORMESIS OF HERBICIDES IN WEEDS AND CROPS
9. EVOLUTION OF WEED RESISTANCE TO HERBICIDES
10. BEHAVIOR AND FATE OF HERBICIDES IN THE SOIL
11. REMEDIATION OF SOILS CONTAMINATED BY HERBICIDES
12. INFLUENCE OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WEED, HERBICIDE AND SOIL MICROBIOTA
13. ADJUVANTS, HERBICIDE FORMULATIONS AND MIXTURES IN SPRAY TANK
14. RECENT ADVANCES IN HERBICIDE APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY
15. GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS RESISTANT TO HERBICIDES AND WEED CONTROL
16. PRECISION AGRICULTURE IN THE APPLICATION OF HERBICIDES FOR WEED MANAGEMENT IN PRE AND POST-EMERGENCE
