Pesticides are extensively used in modern agriculture and are an effective and economical
way to enhance the yield quality and quantity, thus ensuring food security for the ever …

Herbicide‐resistant weeds have been observed since the early years of synthetic herbicide
development in the 1950s and 1960s. Since that time there has been a consistent increase …

According to the UN-FAO, agricultural production must increase by 50% by 2050 to meet
global demand for food. This goal can be accomplished, in part, by the development of …

Crop protection is the science and practice of managing plant diseases, weeds and other
pests. Weed management and control are important given that crop yield losses caused by …

The widespread evolution of multiple herbicide resistance in the most serious annual weeds
infesting Australian cropping fields has forced the development of alternative, non-chemical …

Herbicides play an important role in preventing crop yield losses due to both their weed
interference ability and their capacity for increasing soil conservation in no-till systems …

Lolium rigidum (annual or rigid ryegrass) is a widespread annual weed in cropping systems
of southern A ustralia, and herbicide resistance in L. rigidum is a common problem in this …

The opportunity to target weed seeds during grain harvest was established many decades
ago following the introduction of mechanical harvesting and the recognition of high weed …

Herbicide resistance in crops has extended the scope of herbicide applications to control
weeds. The introduction of herbicide resistant crops resulted in a major shift in the way that …

BACKGROUND Weed resistance to foliar herbicides has dramatically increased worldwide
in the last two decades. As a consequence, current practices of weed management have …