National Summit On Strategies To Manage Herbicide Resistant Weeds

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Planning Committee for a National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309265591

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National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Planning Committee for a National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds Pdf

Preserving the efficacy of herbicides and of herbicide-resistance technology depends on awareness of the increasing resistance of weeds to herbicides used in agriculture and coordinated action to address the problem by individuals at the farm level and beyond. This summit served as a venue to bring the attention of important stakeholders to the issue and as an opportunity for experts from diverse disciplines to strategize in a coordinated way to address herbicide-resistant weeds. In convening stakeholders for this event, participants took a step toward a recommendation from the 2010 National Research Council report The Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States that federal and state government agencies, private-sector technology developers, universities, farmer organizations, and other relevant stakeholders collaborate to document emerging weed-resistance problems and to develop cost-effective resistance-management programs and practices that preserve effective weed control. The summit provided the opportunity for stakeholders to explore the scientific basis of the emergence of herbicide resistance and to consider different perspectives on both opportunities and barriers to overcoming the problem of herbicide-resistant weeds. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds contains a brief synopsis of key points made by each speaker at the summit.

Author : David Pimentel,Rajinder Peshin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400777965

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Integrated Pest Management by David Pimentel,Rajinder Peshin Pdf

The book deals with the present state and problems of integrated pest management as relating to stakeholder acceptance of IPM and how integrated pest management can become a sustainable practice. The discussions include using less pesticides and the possibility of eliminating pesticides from agricultural practice.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Committee on Genetically Engineered Crops: Past Experience and Future Prospects
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309437387

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Genetically Engineered Crops by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Committee on Genetically Engineered Crops: Past Experience and Future Prospects Pdf

Genetically engineered (GE) crops were first introduced commercially in the 1990s. After two decades of production, some groups and individuals remain critical of the technology based on their concerns about possible adverse effects on human health, the environment, and ethical considerations. At the same time, others are concerned that the technology is not reaching its potential to improve human health and the environment because of stringent regulations and reduced public funding to develop products offering more benefits to society. While the debate about these and other questions related to the genetic engineering techniques of the first 20 years goes on, emerging genetic-engineering technologies are adding new complexities to the conversation. Genetically Engineered Crops builds on previous related Academies reports published between 1987 and 2010 by undertaking a retrospective examination of the purported positive and adverse effects of GE crops and to anticipate what emerging genetic-engineering technologies hold for the future. This report indicates where there are uncertainties about the economic, agronomic, health, safety, or other impacts of GE crops and food, and makes recommendations to fill gaps in safety assessments, increase regulatory clarity, and improve innovations in and access to GE technology.

Author : Emily Monosson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781610914994

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Unnatural Selection by Emily Monosson Pdf

Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result. Monosson reveals that the very code of life is more fluid than once imagined. When our powerful chemicals put the pressure on to evolve or die, beneficial traits can sweep rapidly through a population. Species with explosive population growth--the bugs, bacteria, and weeds--tend to thrive, while bigger, slower-to-reproduce creatures, like ourselves, are more likely to succumb. Unnatural Selection is eye-opening and more than a little disquieting. But it also suggests how we might lessen our impact: manage pests without creating super bugs; protect individuals from disease without inviting epidemics; and benefit from technology without threatening the health of our children.

Author : Salah E. O. Mahgoub
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482242829

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Genetically Modified Foods by Salah E. O. Mahgoub Pdf

An increasingly hot-button issue, genetically modified (GM) food is considered by some as the best way to feed the world's growing population, and by others as an experiment gone wrong on the unsuspecting public. Genetically Modified Foods: Basics, Applications, and Controversy details the basics of biotechnology and its applications in the laborat

Author : Ralph Kenneth Horst
Publisher : Amer Phytopathological Society
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0890540527

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Compendium of Rose Diseases by Ralph Kenneth Horst Pdf

Infectious diseases: diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes. Noninfectious diseases: physiologic problems, environmental imbalances, air pollution, pesticides toxicity, nutritional deficiencies, nutritional toxicities.

Author : T.M. Swanson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780306476594

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The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies by T.M. Swanson Pdf

The advent of new biotechnologies implies significant changes in the world, both biologically and industrially. Biologically, these new technologies represent changes on a scale never before witnessed in the context of evolutionary systems. How these systems will respond to these changes is uncertain and potentially very significant. The first part of this volume addresses these issues in a series of chapters considering the manner in which societies might analyse and manage these systemic responses to biotechnological changes. The second part of the volume addresses the industrial issues concerning biotechnologies. One of the primary motivations for these changes is to enhance the appropriability of the value of innovation occurring within the life sciences sectors. Changing to a property rights-based system of biotechnology has implications for the nature of research and development within these sectors, and the diffusion and distribution of its benefits across the globe. Another set of chapters in this volume sets out a framework for considering these important industrial issues. The volume is the outcome of a two-year project on the economics of managing biotechnologies in agriculture. It is recommended to academics and policy makers interested in the issues concerning society's options in the management of this process of technological change.

Author : Stephen O. Duke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351090094

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Herbicide-Resistant Crops by Stephen O. Duke Pdf

Edited by a recognized leader in the field, Herbicide-Resistant Crops is the first book to cover all of the issues related to the controversial topic of herbicide-resistant crops. It provides extensive discussions of the modern biotechnological methods that have been used to develop such crops, and reviews the implications - both positive and negative - of developing crops that are resistant to herbicides. The creation and anticipated applications of specific herbicide-resistant crops are also discussed. In addition, the book covers the potential impact of herbicide-resistant crops on weed management practices and the environment, and presents issues related to the regulation and economics of these crops. The editor has brought together a diverse group of professionals, representing the several distinct areas impacted by the new technology of herbicide-resistant crops. The wide range of viewpoints presented in this book creates a balanced and complete survey, providing a notable contribution to the literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UCANR Publications
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781601071927

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Herbicide Resistance: Definition and Management Strategies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen B. Powles
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351081634

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Herbicide Resistance in Plants by Stephen B. Powles Pdf

The late 1980s saw an explosion in the amount and diversity of herbicide resistance, posing a threat to crop production in many countries. The rapid escalation in herbicide resistance worldwide and in the understanding of resistance at the population, biochemical, and molecular level is the focus of this timely book. Leading researchers from North America, Australia, and Western Europe present lucid reviews that consider the population dynamics and genetics, biochemistry, and agro-ecology of resistance. Resistance to various herbicides is discussed in detail, as well as the mechanisms responsible for cross resistance and multiple resistance. This reference is invaluable to those interested in evolution and the ability of species to overcome severe environmental stress.

Author : I. Denholm,A. Devonshire,D. Hollomon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401128629

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Resistance’ 91: Achievements and Developments in Combating Pesticide Resistance by I. Denholm,A. Devonshire,D. Hollomon Pdf

The development of pesticide resistance in arthropod pests, plant pathogens and weeds can be viewed and studied from two contrasting perspectives. At a fundamental level, resistance provides an almost ideal example of adaptation to withstand severe environmental stress. Population geneticists, biochemists and, most recently, molecular biologists have cast considerable light on the nature of this adaptation in diverse taxonomic groups, and on factors determining its selection and spread within and between populations. Unlike most evolutionary phenomena, however, resistance is also of immediate practical and economic significance. Not only has the number of resistant species continued to increase inexorably, but there has been an alarming increase in the severity and extent of some resistance problems. Cases of organisms resisting virtually all available pesticides are by no means uncommon, and pose a formidable challenge in view of present difficulties in discovering and developing novel chemicals. Although most occurrences of resistance were initially monofactorial, resistance now frequently involves a suite of coexisting mechanisms that protect organisms against the same or different pesticide groups, and may even predispose them to resist new, as yet unused chemicals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Weeds
ISBN : PSU:000032323597

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Proceedings Eleventh Australian Weeds Conference by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karl Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Herbicide resistance
ISBN : MINN:31951002968051D

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Herbicide Resistance, January 1986 - January 1989 by Karl Schneider Pdf

Author : Rajinder Peshin,David Pimentel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400778023

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Integrated Pest Management by Rajinder Peshin,David Pimentel Pdf

The book deals with the present state and problems of integrated pest management (IPM) as relating to stakeholder acceptance of IPM and how IPM can become a sustainable practice. The book covers the implementation of integrated pest management in USA, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, China, India, Indonesia, Australia, Africa, and its impact in reducing pesticide use in agriculture. The book also deals with the impact of transgenic crops on pesticide use.

Author : Paul E. Hatcher,Robert J. Froud-Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119380603

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Weed Research by Paul E. Hatcher,Robert J. Froud-Williams Pdf

This book presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the current and potential future state of weed science and research. Weeds have a huge effect on the world by reducing crop yield and quality, delaying or interfering with harvesting, interfering with animal feeding (including poisoning), reducing animal health and preventing water flow. They are common across the world and cost billions of dollars’ worth of crop losses year on year, as well as billions of dollars in the annual expense of controlling them. An understanding of weeds is vital to their proper management and control, without which the reduction in crop yields that they would cause could lead to mass starvation across the globe. Topics covered include weed biology and ecology, control of weeds and particular issues faced in their control. Authored and edited by internationally renowned scientists in the field all of whom are actively involved in European Weed Research Society working groups, this succinct overview covers all the relevant aspects of the science of weeds. Weed Research: Expanding Horizons is the perfect resource for botanists, horticultural scientists, agronomists, weed scientists, plant protection specialists and agrochemical company personnel.