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Theory and Practice of Weed Control

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‘Chemical weed control is a miracle of our technological age’ according to Ashton and Crafts (1973). The very word miracle implies that chemical control of weeds with very small quantities of herbicide is beyond human understanding, and it is certainly true that few general principles of chemical control have been formulated; rather, each use of a particular herbicide for selective weed control in an individual crop is highly specific. The choice of herbicide for a particular situation will depend upon several variables including climate, soil type, prevalent weed species, crop cultivar and method of propagation and management. A herbicide effective and safe for strawberries in North America may not be so in Scotland. In this chapter some aspects of selectivity and mode of action are summarised.

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Stephens, R.J. (1982). Herbicides. In: Theory and Practice of Weed Control. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86066-1_6

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