Special Issue "Sustainable Weed Control in the Agroecosystems"
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 22659
Special Issue Editors

Interests: agro-ecology; fertilizer management; greenhouse gas emissions; carbon cycle
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Interests: sustainable food production; sustainable cultivation; environmental-friendly agricultural practices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At present, agricultural production is essential for ensuring food security worldwide. Weeds are an important constraint to crop yield, and their management is crucial to avoid losses. The actual control means are not suitable for the concept of modern agriculture due to labor shortage, the environmental persistence of chemical means, health hazards, and herbicide-resistant weeds. Several means could be adopted for controlling weeds, such as improving tillage regimes, weed seed harvest, thermal means, biotechnological means, and precision farming. Unfortunately, no single strategy is completely efficient, and therefore an integrated approach could represent the key to success in weed management under sustainable agriculture. Indeed, the incorporation of a combination of weed management measures helps to sustain weed control systems over time and maintain farms’ ability to provide productive harvests while protecting the environment.
The main objective of the Special Issue is to publish original research, modeling approaches, and review papers addressing how weed management could be implemented in sustainable cropping systems across different environments, soils, and geographic locations.
To achieve this goal, Sustainability is encouraging researchers to submit relevant articles to this Special Issue. Therefore, manuscripts evaluating how innovative weed management strategies could support sustainable agriculture and improve crop productivity, nutrient dynamics, soil physical and biochemical properties, as well as biodiversity, weed dynamics, and weed species composition are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Roberto Mancinelli
Dr. Emanuele Radicetti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable agriculture
- integrated weed management
- weed species composition
- weed community dynamics
- crop–weed competition
- ecological intensification of cropping systems
- weed seedbank
- herbicide-resistant weeds