Weed Biology and Ecology: Importance to Integrated Weed Management—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Weed Science and Weed Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 1034
Editors
Interests: weed control; weed germination; plant stress; legume plants
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Interests: weed; seed dormancy; germination behavior; herbicide resistance; population dynamics; adaptive evolution; weed management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of our first Special Issue of Agronomy, titled “Weed Biology and Ecology: Importance to Integrated Weed Management”, the Editorial Office is pleased to launch a second edition.
Weeds are plants that are inexorably associated with agricultural crops. Due to their pronounced survival and adaptive capacities, despite attempts to regulate their occurrence and regardless of the methods employed, they continue to persist in the environment.
However, climate change, alterations in tillage systems, changes in weed control and plant cultivation, and/or the introduction of new substances (inter alia, biostimulants) into plant cultivation practices have all had an impact on weed populations and their management. All these factors can affect weed growth and crop productivity in different ways. As such, understanding the potential behavior of weeds is an important aspect of tillage and plant cultivation that would aid farmers in making decisions pertaining to weed management.
This Special Issue therefore aims to present recent research findings concerning changes in the biology and ecology of weeds with regard to plant cultivation and climate change.
Dr. Agnieszka Lejman
Prof. Dr. Shouhui Wei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- weed biology and ecology
- weed control
- weed resistance
- weed management
- climate change
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