Integrated weed management for sustainable agriculture

Part 1 Weeds
1.Weed ecology and population dynamics: Adam S. Davis, USDA-ARS, USA;
2.Weed-plant interactions: Bruce Maxwell, Montana State University, USA;
3.Invasive weed species and their effects: David R. Clements, Trinity Western University, Canada;

Part 2 IWM principles
4.Key issues and challenges of integrated weed management: C. J. Swanton and T. Valente, University of Guelph, Canada;
5.Ethical issues in integrated weed management: Robert L. Zimdahl, Colorado State University, USA
6.Surveillance and monitoring of weed populations: Anita Dille, Kansas State University, USA;

Part 3 Using herbicides in integrated weed management
7.Site-specific weed management: S. A. Clay and S. A. Bruggeman, South Dakota State University, USA;
8.Assessing and minimizing the environmental effects of herbicides: Chris Preston, University of Adelaide, Australia;
9.Trends in the development of herbicide-resistant weeds: Ian Heap, International Survey of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds, USA;

Part 4 Cultural and physical methods for weed control
10.The role of herbicide-resistant crops in integrated weed management: Prashant Jha, Montana State University, USA;andKrishna Reddy, USDA-ARS, USA;
11.Cultural techniques to manage weeds: Matt Liebman, Iowa State University, USA;
12.The use of rotations and cover crops to manage weeds: John R. Teasdale, USDA-ARS, USA;
13.Developments in physical weed control: Eric R. Gallandt, University of Maine, USA; Daniel Brainard, Michigan State University, USA; and Bryan Brown, University of Maine, USA;
14.Flame weeding techniques: Stevan Z. Knezevic, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA;
15.Soil solarization: a sustainable method for weed management: Baruch Rubin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; and Abraham Gamliel, The Volcani Center, Israel;
16.Weed management in organic crop cultivation: Greta Gramig, North Dakota State University, USA;

Part 5 Biological methods for weed control
17.The use of allelopathy and competitive crop cultivars for weed suppression in cereal crops: James M. Mwendwa, Charles Sturt University, Australia; Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer, Ashland University, USA; and Leslie A. Weston, Charles Sturt University, Australia;
18.Bio-herbicides: an overview: Erin Rosskopf, USDA-ARS, United States Horticultural Laboratory, USA; Raghavan Charudattan, BioProdex Inc., USA; and William Bruckart, USDA-ARS, Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, USA
19.The use of microorganisms in integrated weed management: Susan M. Boyetchko, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Canada;
20.The use of bacteria in integrated weed management: Ann C. Kennedy, USDA-ARS and Washington State University, USA;
21.The use of insects in integrated weed management: Sandrine Petit and David A. Bohan, UMR Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon,INRA, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France;