Event Date/Time: Nov 19, 2009
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End Date/Time: Nov 23, 2009 |
Abstract Submission Date:
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Paper Submission Date:
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Description
Agriculture faces unprecedented environmental vagaries and as such Weed Scientists are confronted with innumerable challenges. Thus, vegetation managers are facing new problems due to changing behaviour of weeds, which has invited the human attention to mould their attitudes into a manageable form. Bio-diversity and conservation advocated by ethno-botanists and dominance of a single species (crop) as desired by the weed managers are the diverging views of the two schools of thought. Convergence of the two ideas has however, been conceptualized to be the recommended modus operandi for optimizing the dynamic behavior of weeds in the agro-ecosystems, without affecting the biodiversity and sustainability.
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Topics to be covered
Weed biology, weed ecology and systematics
Integrated weed management
Weed physiology
Chemical weed control
Parasitic weeds
Herbicide resistance
Weed seed dormancy and soil seed banks
Species shift and herbicides
Invasive weeds and agro-biodiversity
Aquatic weed management
Allelopathy
GMO’s
Weed management in agronomic and horticultural crops
Weed management in turfs and forests