| Molecular Biology of Weed Control Contributor(s): Gressel, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415266424 ISBN-13: 9780415266420 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $285.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: Molecular Biology of Weed Control assesses the impact of the new tools of molecular biology on the science of weed control as well as the ways in which the science of weed control has helped and influenced molecular biology. Accentuating the utility of molecular biology to contribute to the control of intransigent weed species both in the developing and developed world, the book also looks to the future and describes how molecular biology can be used to diminish the use of chemical herbicides, and enhance crop competitiveness for light, nutrients, and water. This volume is essential reading for all weed scientists, environmental students, researchers and regulators. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - Nature | Plants - Flowers |
| Dewey: 632.5 |
| LCCN: 2002023196 |
| Series: Frontiers in Life Science |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.38" W x 9.7" (2.15 lbs) 520 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Weeds are rarely considered a priority despite the fact that all active farmers know that the majority of their variable costs and time are devoted to eradicating them. Even most crop losses due to pests can be traced directly back to weeds, which harbor the pests as secondary hosts. In the Molecular Biology of Weed Control, Jonathan Gressel focuses attention upon the tools of molecular biology that can be used effectively in the science of weed control. Always keeping his perspective congruent with that of the working farmer, Gressel explains how weed biologists and ecologists are beginning to use recently developed tools to control intransigent weed species in modern as well as less developed areas of the world. With his usual candor, Gressel evaluates past efforts, while also exploring future prospects for replacing chemical herbicides with genetic engineering, to improve a crop's ability to compete against its feral cousins for light, nutrients, and water. Like much of Gressel's work, this book should be mandatory reading for all agriculturists and plant scientists, so that they employ and encourage what is truly effective and efficient in meeting one of this century's most critical challenges: maximizing agricultural productivity. |
