The application rates for conventional herbicide formulations are generally greater than the recommended dosage, in order to overcome losses from degradation, leaching, volatilization, and sorption during the time needed for weed control. All these factors have encouraged the development of controlled release formulations (CRFs), which can reduce herbicides levels in the environment since less ...

Weed control is generally considered to be essential for crop production and herbicides have become the main method used for weed control in developed countries. However, concerns about harmful environmental consequences have led to strong pressure on farmers to reduce the use of herbicides. As food demand is forecast to increase by 50% over the next century, an in-depth quantitative analysis o...

Poaceous weeds are prolific and competitive in winter crops, but they are more insidious in wheat due to their similar morphology and growing requirements. Herbicides are effective and efficient tools of weed management, however, they are vulnerable to resistance, and herbicides with different modes of action might check the dominance of a particular weed flora. The current study was undertaken...

Cycling pesticides has been proposed as a means of retarding the evolution of resistance, but its efficacy has rarely been empirically tested. We evolved populations of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in the presence of three herbicides: atrazine, glyphosate and carbetamide. Populations were exposed to a weekly, biweekly and triweekly cycling between all three pairwise combinations of herbicides and ...

abstract to study the efficacy of glyphosate and nicosulfuron herbicides on barnyardgrass [echinochloa crus-galii (l.) p. beauv.] and velvetleaf (abotilon theophrasti medicus.) control and to find the ed50 index, experiments were conducted as factorial arrangement of treatments 2×7 based on completely randomized design with six replications for each weed in 2008-9 at research greenhouse, ferdow...