TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cobb,Andrew H.
AU  - Reade,John
TI  - Herbicides and plant physiology
SN  - 978-1-4051-2935-0
PY  - 2010///
CY  - West Sussex
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Herbicidas
KW  - Fisiología vegetal
N1  - Índice; Bibliografía
N2  - Herbicides continue to make a spectacular contribution to modern safe crop production. It is essential to understand how these compounds work in plants and their surroundings to properly facilitate the development of more effective and safer agrochemicals. This book provides that information in a succinct and user-friendly way. The second edition of this very well-received and highly thought of book has been fully up-dated with much new information of relevance to the subject, particularly in the areas of cell and molecular biology; Índice: Preface. 1 An Introduction to Weed Biology. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Distribution. 1.3 The importance of weeds. 1.4 Problems caused by weeds. 1.5 Biology of weeds. 1.6 A few examples of problem weeds. 1.7 Positive attributes of weeds. 1.8 The ever-changing weed spectrum. 1.9 Weed control. References. 2 Herbicide Discovery and Development. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Markets. 2.3 Prospects. 2.4 Environmental impact and relative toxicology. 2.5 The search for novel active ingredients. 2.6 The search for novel target sites. 2.7 Mode of action studies. 2.8 A lower limit for rates of herbicide application? References. 3... Etc
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