Bad Weed

Bad Theory, Bad Practice: Bad Ethics

A profession that claims to understand economies, and that has gained power over the greater part of our societies, has big responsibilities. The fundamental responsibility is to ensure its perception of economies gives some useful guidance to the behaviour of real economies. Here mainstream economics fails utterly, and has been failing for a long time. Worse, it actively resists alternative vi...

Transdisciplinary weed research: new leverage on challenging weed problems?

N JORDAN, M SCHUT, S GRAHAM, J N BARNEY, D Z CHILDS, S CHRISTENSEN, R D COUSENS, A S DAVIS, H EIZENBERG, D E ERVIN, C FERNANDEZ-QUINTANILLA, L J HARRISON, M A HARSCH, S HEIJTING, M LIEBMAN, D LODDO, S B MIRSKY, M RIEMENS, P NEVE, D A PELTZER, M RENTON, M WILLIAMS, J RECASENS & M SØNDERSKOV Agronomy and Plant Genetics Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA, Knowledge Technology a...

Weed Biology and Weed Management in Organic Farming

Weed genomics: new tools to understand weed biology.

In spite of the large yield losses that weeds inflict on crops, we know little about the genomics of economically important weed species. Comparative genomics between plant model species and weeds, map-based approaches, genomic sequencing and functional genomics can play vital roles in understanding and dissecting weedy traits of agronomically important weed species that damage crops. Weed geno...

Weed Science and Management