[Special Issue News] The War Against Weeds Down Under

Science 16 August 2013:
Vol. 341 no. 6147 pp. 734-736
DOI: 10.1126/science.341.6147.734 Weeds are a serious problem for wheat farmers in Australia, where herbicides have gradually become almost useless. Stephen Powles of the University of Western Australia, Crawley, has long advocated diversifying weed management and relying more on nonchemical control techniques, such as burning seeds—an approach that is beginning to pay off.

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