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Weed Science Society of America weed biology survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Robert F. Norris
Robert F. Norris*
Affiliation:
Weed Science Program, Vegetable Crops, Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616
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Abstract

WSSA members were surveyed in 1993–1994 to determine their perceptions of the contribution of weed biology to weed management. A questionnaire was included in the society newsletter, from which 152 responses were returned by mail or collected at the 1994 annual meeting. Over half the respondents felt that the overall contribution of weed biology to weed management had been moderate to high. Aspects of population dynamics and competition emerged as the areas that respondents felt should have the greatest impact on weed management in the future. The areas of computer modeling, interactions between weeds and other pests, and seedbank dynamics were predicted to show the greatest increases in importance in the future. The relative importance of taxonomy and weed identification was expected to decrease. Allelopathy, morphology and anatomy, and genetics and evolution were considered least likely to be important to weed management.

Type
Symposium
Information
Weed Science , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , June 1997 , pp. 343 - 348
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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