Concern about potential increases in weed populations without the use of herbicides has
limited the uptake of organic farming. However, as both public demands for organic produce …

Competitive crop cultivars offer a potentially cheap option to include in integrated weed
management strategies (IWM). Although cultivars with high competitive potential have been …

Weeds are known to cause enormous losses due to their interference in agroecosystems.
Because of environmental and human health concerns, worldwide efforts are being made to …

The competitive abilities of a wide range of genotypes of wheat (Trilicvm aestivum L.) and
durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) against Lolium rigidum Gaud,(annual ryegrass) were …

1. Recent advances in our understanding of the advantage of initial size in competition
among individual plants (size-asymmetric competition) suggest that the potential for many …

The objectives of this study were to identify traits in spring barley (Hordeum vulgare) and
spring wheat (Triticum aestivum) related to the competitive ability of the crop and to …

This book is a unique review of weed science. The sample material reflects the exciting
developments in weed research coming out of Scandinavian and other parts of the world …

Evolutionary theory can be applied to improve agricultural yields and/or sustainability, an
approach we call Evolutionary Agroecology. The basic idea is that plant breeding is unlikely …

Interest in breeding grain crops with improved weed suppressive ability is growing in
response to the evolution and rapid expansion of herbicide resistant populations in major …

Forty rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars and breeding lines used in the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) upland rice breeding program were evaluated in adjacent weed …