Weeds pose a major challenge to the sustainability of agricultural production systems, causing significant crop yield, economic and environmental losses. Chemical weed control tactics play a major role in modern weed management, maintaining the productivity of diverse cropping systems, reducing yield losses and facilitating conservation agriculture. However, the over-reliance on chemical weed control has led to shifts in weed communities in agroecosystems which are now becoming dominated by high competitors and herbicide resistance. Thus, weed scientists and practitioners are urged to develop and incorporate innovative and feasible integrated weed management (IWM) systems that can reduce weed infestations and environmental impacts.
The goal of IWM is to minimize weed establishment and competition with the crop and prevent weed reproduction through the use of preventive methods, scientific knowledge, management skills, monitoring procedures, and effective control practices. In IWM systems, cultural, mechanical, biological, and/or chemical strategies are systematically deployed to reduce weed establishment, crop-weed competition, and the influx of weed seeds into the soil seedbank.
The goal of this Research Topic is to publish articles which may present new insights or perspectives of innovative and sustainable integrated weed management approaches in conventional, conservation, and organic agricultural crop production systems. Reviews, Original Research, Methods, Perspectives, and Opinion Articles are all welcome for submission.
Specific topics may include but are not limited to:
• Strategies to prevent transboundary invasion of weeds
• Landscape scale approaches to integrated weed management
• Cultural methods for weed management
• Sustainable mechanical methods for weed management
• Biological methods for weed management
• Use of artificial intelligence, robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles for weed detection and management
• Adoption of biotechnology for weed management
• Integration of chemical and non-chemical methods for weed management
• Simulation modelling evaluating long-term outcomes of integrated weed management
• Long-term experiences with integrated weed management strategies
Weeds pose a major challenge to the sustainability of agricultural production systems, causing significant crop yield, economic and environmental losses. Chemical weed control tactics play a major role in modern weed management, maintaining the productivity of diverse cropping systems, reducing yield losses and facilitating conservation agriculture. However, the over-reliance on chemical weed control has led to shifts in weed communities in agroecosystems which are now becoming dominated by high competitors and herbicide resistance. Thus, weed scientists and practitioners are urged to develop and incorporate innovative and feasible integrated weed management (IWM) systems that can reduce weed infestations and environmental impacts.
The goal of IWM is to minimize weed establishment and competition with the crop and prevent weed reproduction through the use of preventive methods, scientific knowledge, management skills, monitoring procedures, and effective control practices. In IWM systems, cultural, mechanical, biological, and/or chemical strategies are systematically deployed to reduce weed establishment, crop-weed competition, and the influx of weed seeds into the soil seedbank.
The goal of this Research Topic is to publish articles which may present new insights or perspectives of innovative and sustainable integrated weed management approaches in conventional, conservation, and organic agricultural crop production systems. Reviews, Original Research, Methods, Perspectives, and Opinion Articles are all welcome for submission.
Specific topics may include but are not limited to:
• Strategies to prevent transboundary invasion of weeds
• Landscape scale approaches to integrated weed management
• Cultural methods for weed management
• Sustainable mechanical methods for weed management
• Biological methods for weed management
• Use of artificial intelligence, robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles for weed detection and management
• Adoption of biotechnology for weed management
• Integration of chemical and non-chemical methods for weed management
• Simulation modelling evaluating long-term outcomes of integrated weed management
• Long-term experiences with integrated weed management strategies