Herbicide Resistance in Plants
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 (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 86090
Special Issue Editor
Interests: herbicide resistance; herbicide-resistant crops; herbicide-resistant weeds; integrated weed management; transgenic crops
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Relentless evolution of herbicide-resistant (HR) weeds is an important global issue, with implications for food security and economic, agronomic, and environmental sustainability. The introduction of glyphosate-resistant crops in 1996 heralded a new level of weed control over the next 10 years but was followed by increasing evolution of glyphosate-resistant weeds. Today, the alarming occurrence of multiple resistance in weed populations concomitant with the paucity of herbicides over the past 30 years with a major new mode of action has led to increasing reliance on combined—or stacked—trait HR crops to manage these populations. This Special Issue of Plants will highlight global trends in the occurrence of HR weeds; recent developments in target-site and non-target-site resistance mechanisms; population genetics/genomics of HR weeds; potential implications of genome/gene editing for weed management; fitness of HR weeds and implications for management; recent developments in HR weed management including socio-economic considerations for enhancing grower adoption; and current status and future outlook for HR traits in cereal, oilseed, and annual/perennial legume crops.
Prof. Hugh J. Beckie
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genetically modified crops
- herbicide resistance
- herbicide-resistant crops
- herbicide-resistant weeds
- integrated weed management
- transgenic crops
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