Sustainable crop and weed management in the era of the EU Green Deal: A survival guide

A Tataridas, P Kanatas, A Chatzigeorgiou… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an
overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The …

Herbicide resistant weeds: A call to integrate conventional agricultural practices, molecular biology knowledge and new technologies

VE Perotti, AS Larran, VE Palmieri, AK Martinatto… - Plant Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Herbicide resistant (HR) weeds are of major concern in modern agriculture. This situation is
exacerbated by the massive adoption of herbicide-based technologies along with the …

The blackgrass genome reveals patterns of non‐parallel evolution of polygenic herbicide resistance

L Cai, D Comont, D MacGregor, C Lowe… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, weedy plants are a major constraint to sustainable crop production. Much of the
success of weeds rests with their ability to rapidly adapt in the face of human‐mediated …

Can new herbicide discovery allow weed management to outpace resistance evolution?

TA Gaines, R Busi, A Küpper - Pest Management Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While herbicides are the most effective and widely adopted weed management approach,
the evolution of multiple herbicide resistance in damaging weed species threatens the yield …

Water stress resilient cereal crops: Lessons from wild relatives

JM Toulotte, CK Pantazopoulou… - Journal of Integrative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cereal crops are significant contributors to global diets. As climate change disrupts weather
patterns and wreaks havoc on crops, the need for generating stress‐resilient, high‐yielding …

Gene drive systems: do they have a place in agricultural weed management?

P Neve - Pest management science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is a pressing need for novel control techniques in agricultural weed management.
Direct genetic control of agricultural pests encompasses a range of techniques to introduce …

Synthetic auxin herbicides: finding the lock and key to weed resistance

OE Todd, MRA Figueiredo, S Morran, N Soni… - Plant Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Synthetic auxin herbicides are designed to mimic indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), an integral plant
hormone affecting cell growth, development, and tropism. In this review, we explore target …

Draft Genomes of Amaranthus tuberculatus, Amaranthus hybridus, and Amaranthus palmeri

JS Montgomery, D Giacomini… - Genome biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Amaranthus tuberculatus, Amaranthus hybridus, and Amaranthus palmeri are agronomically
important weed species. Here, we present the most contiguous draft assemblies of these …

Ecological realism and rigor in the study of plant-plant allelopathic interactions

JD Weidenhamer, D Cipollini, K Morris, S Gurusinghe… - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Progress in understanding allelopathic interactions among plants has long been hampered
by the complexity of the many direct and indirect interactions involved. Plant processes and …

Understanding the nexus of rising CO2, climate change, and evolution in weed biology

LH Ziska, DM Blumenthal, SJ Franks - Invasive Plant Science and …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Rapid increases in herbicide resistance have highlighted the ability of weeds to undergo
genetic change within a short period of time. That change, in turn, has resulted in an …