Weed Management in Semi-arid Regions
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 3933
Special Issue Editors
Interests: integrated weed management; dryland agriculture; cover crops; intercropping; harvest weed seed control; precision farming; wheat–fallow systems; crop rotations
Interests: integrated weed management; low external input dryland agriculture; crop competition and yield loss; population genetics; herbicide resistance; weed seedbank management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Herbicide resistance threatens cereal grain production and soil resources around the world by increasing the cost and complexity of weed management and limiting tillage-less systems. Weeds strongly affect the long-term environmental and economic sustainability of dryland semi-arid cropping systems by reducing yields and net financial returns. The use of herbicide alternatives such as crop rotations, cover crops, or intercropping has had limited success in water-limited regions, particularly those with Mediterranean climates. In addition, tillage-less agriculture is slowly being abandoned in semi-arid regions due to herbicide resistance, despite the benefits of soil conservation and improvement of water and fertilizer use efficiency. New tools including harvest weed seed control and precision application technologies have potential to improve weed management in dryland agriculture, but more research is needed before widespread adoption.
In this Special Issue, articles (original research papers, reviews) are welcome that focus on alternative management strategies to herbicides to improve weed control in dryland semi-arid regions.
Dr. Judit Barroso
Dr. Ian Burke
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- alternative weed management
- dryland agriculture
- integrated weed management
- cover crops
- new weed control methods
- precision farming
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