A linuron-free weed management strategy for carrots

A Novel Hybrid Droop-Isochronous Control Strategy for Microgrid Management

The droop control strategy is the most common approach for microgrids control but its application is limited due to frequency deviation following a load change. Complementary control strategy has then been proposed to solve the problem using a communication network. However, under this strategy, regular loads profile produces a continuous change of output power of all distributed generators (DG...

Weed management: a need for ecological approaches

Agriculture is the process of managing plant communities to obtain useful materials from the small set of species we call crops. Weeds comprise the “other” set of plant species found in agroecosystems. Although they are not intentionally sown, weed species are well adapted to environments dominated by humans and have been associated with crop production since the origins of agriculture (Harlan,...

A New Combined Strategy for Discrimination between Types of Weed

Specific weed management consists on adjusting herbicide treatments depending on the zone infested and the type of weed. In this context, the discrimination between grasses (monocots) and broad-leaved weeds (dicots) is an important objective mainly because the two weed groups can be appropriately controlled by different specific herbicides. This work proposes a method of discrimination between ...

Weed Science and Management

True integrated weed management

Using the simplest of definitions, integrated weed management has been described as “putting components [of weed control] together, not taking them apart.” Yet, weed science has stopped at the “field edge” in assembling the components into a truly integrated approach. What is keeping weed scientists from developing real integrated weed control regardless of space and time? The answer to this qu...