Handbook of Sustainable Weed ManagementHarinder P. Singh, Daizy Rani Batish, Ravinder Kumar Kohli Innovative Strategies for Managing Weeds in an Environmentally Protective Manner Successfully meeting the challenge of providing weed control without relying on dangerous chemicals that endanger the ecosystem or human lives, this compendium focuses on management strategies that reduce herbicidal usage, restore ecological balance, and increase food production. It also provides new insights and approaches for weed scientists, agronomists, agriculturists, horticulturists, farmers, and extentionists, as well as teachers and students. In the Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management, experts from Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia organize in one resource information related to weeds and their management from different ecosystems around the world that has been until now been scattered throughout the literature.. The text captures the multifaceted impacts of and approaches to managing weeds from field, farm, landscape, regional, and global perspectives. Generously illustrated with tables and figures, this book not only describes the various techniques for weed management but shows you what methods work best in a given region, or in response to a specific, invasive weed or invaded crop. Covering the full scope of modern weed science the handbook examines different aspects of weed management, including— • Cultural practices • Cover crops • Crop rotation designs • Potential of herbicide resistant crops • Bioherbicides • Allelopathy • Microorganisms • Integrated weed management In spite of advancement in technologies and procedures, weeds continue to pose a major ecological and economical threat to agriculture. Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management takes a broad view of weeds as a part of an agricultural system composed of interacting production, environmental, biological, economic, and social components all working together to find balance. This comprehensive book is a vital addition to the debate over how global weed management is changing in the 21st century. Also available in soft cover |
Contents
Benefits and Harms | 10 |
Components of Integrated Weed Management | 23 |
Economic Areas Affected by Weeds and Their Management | 40 |
Contributions to Weed Suppression | 51 |
Management Issues | 59 |
Utilizing Brassica Cover Crops for Weed | 77 |
Integrating Brassica Cover Crops into Cropping Systems | 85 |
GrassLegume Mixed Cover Crops for Weed | 95 |
Formulations and Spray Application | 405 |
Integration in Weed Management and Crop Production | 412 |
Biological Considerations | 459 |
Technological Considerations | 465 |
Implementation of Weed Biocontrol in Forest | 475 |
Development and Commercialization of Mycoherbicide | 491 |
Characterization of Phytotoxins | 507 |
Ascochyta caulina Phytotoxins | 514 |
Management of a Mixed Cover Crop | 104 |
Efficacy of Mixed Cover Crop for Weed Control | 110 |
Conclusions | 120 |
Rye As a Weed Management Tool | 127 |
Managing Rye Cover Crops | 136 |
The Effects of Weed Control and Rye on Vegetables | 144 |
Conclusions and Recommendations | 151 |
A Rotation Design That Aids Annual Weed | 159 |
Examining Tillage and Crop Rotation Effects | 179 |
Weed Community Associations | 187 |
Conclusions | 202 |
Potential of Allelopathy and Allelochemicals | 209 |
Screening of Cultivars with Greater Allelopathic Potential | 223 |
Progress in Developing WeedSuppressive | 257 |
Optimum Period for Maximum Weed Suppression | 269 |
Rice Breeding Efforts in Arkansas and Some Potential | 276 |
An Alternative to Traditional Breeding | 283 |
The Ecology of Weed Seed Predation | 297 |
Impact of Seed Predation on Weed Population | 309 |
What Scientific Knowledge Is Needed to Better | 360 |
Herbicide Fate Under Conservation Tillage | 373 |
Herbicide Degradation in ConservationManaged Systems | 379 |
Strategies for Developing Bioherbicides | 393 |
Applications of Soil and Rhizosphere | 533 |
Soil and Rhizosphere Bacteria in Sustainable Agriculture | 540 |
HerbicideResistant Crops and Weed | 549 |
Impact of HRCS on Weed Management | 555 |
Benefits and Risks of HRCS As Weed Management Tools | 569 |
Strategies for Managing HerbicideResistant | 581 |
Cuscuta Species Dodders | 679 |
Viscum Species Mistletoes | 707 |
Management of Weeds in Pasture Systems | 771 |
Strategies for Control | 777 |
Integrated Management of Pasture Weeds | 784 |
Integrated Turfgrass Weed Management | 791 |
Mechanical Methods | 799 |
Chemical Methods | 805 |
Approaches to Integrated Weed Management | 813 |
Conclusion | 821 |
Learning Groups for Implementation | 825 |
A Conceptual Model of Coordinated Innovation in Support | 832 |
Recommendations for Professional Roles and Practices | 842 |
Conclusions | 848 |
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