Ongoing Research on Role and Sustainable Weed Management in the Horticultural Crops

Dear Colleagues,

Weeds play an important role in horticultural crops, and they constitute an important cause of quantitative and qualitative worsening of yields. Moreover, most crops have a poor ability to compete with weeds. These criticalities have also increased in recent years due to the decrease in the availability of chemical herbicides and the selection of tolerant or resistant weeds. The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather information regarding the most recent research on the weed–crop relationship and recent acquisitions on management techniques. Particular interest can be reserved for the relationship between agronomic techniques (fertilization, irrigation, pest management, etc.) and weed infestation in order to develop preventive management techniques.

Some of the topics of interest of the Special Issue are listed below:

• Role of weeds in horticultural agro-ecosystems;
• New weed species in horticulture crops;
• Parasitic weeds;
• Weed–crop relationships;
• Effects of different agronomic practices on weed infestation;
• Chemical weed control;
• Bioherbicides in horticultural crops;
• Mechanical and physical weed control.

Dr. Mariano Fracchiolla
Dr. Massimiliano Renna
Guest Editors

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