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The rapid evolution of herbicide resistance poses a significant threat for conventional agricultural practices. In practice, herbicide resistance seems to be a very complicated problem to deal with. Extension can play a significant role in managing herbicide resistance educating farmers on the main advantages and disadvantages of the available methods aiming to control and minimize herbicide re...

Initiatives to reduce the reliance of agriculture on pesticides, including European Union (EU) Directive 2009/128/EC sustainable use pesticides (SUD), have yet lead widespread implementation Integrated Pest Management (IPM) principles. Developments in weed management strongly focused increasing efficiency herbicides or substituting with other single tactics such as mechanical control. To increa...

Critical period of weed control is the foundation of integrated weed management and, hence, can be considered the first step to design weed control strategy. To determine critical period of weed control of aerobic rice, field trials were conducted during 2010/2011 at Universiti Putra Malaysia. A quantitative series of treatments comprising two components, (a) increasing duration of weed interfe...