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Future Role of Weed Science in International Agriculture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Beatriz L. Mercado
Beatriz L. Mercado*
Affiliation:
Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los Baños, College, Laguna, Philippines
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Dr. Mercado is Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of the Philippines at Los Baños. Her undergraduate and Master's degrees are from the University of the Phillippines, and her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She has been active in weed science since the early 1970's and has trained some 27 M.S. and 8 Ph.D. students. In addition, she and her husband have raised a family of five children. Mercado is a well-recognized weed scientist in her part of the world, having lectured in Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. Her weed science textbook, “Introduction to Weed Science,” is widely used in Asian countries. Among her many honors, perhaps those most prized would be three awards for outstanding achievement from her own University of the Philippines.

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Honorary Member Address
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 107 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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