Sustainable strategies for managing weeds are critical to meeting agriculture's potential to
feed the world's population while conserving the ecosystems and biodiversity on which we …

Agricultural systems in the EU have become more vulnerable and less sustainable due to an
overreliance on herbicides and the tremendous increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. The …

Initiatives to reduce the reliance of agriculture on pesticides, including the European Union
(EU) Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides (SUD), have yet to lead to …

Over the years, several agricultural interventions and technologies have contributed
immensely towards intensifying food production globally. The introduction of herbicides …

Reconciling crop productivity and biodiversity maintenance is one of the main challenges of
agriculture worldwide. Moreover, the importance of weed diversity in mitigating yield losses …

Implementation of integrated weed management (IWM) has been poor, with little evidence of
concomitant reductions in herbicide use. Non‐chemical methods are often adopted as a …

Herbicide resistant (HR) weeds are of major concern in modern agriculture. This situation is
exacerbated by the massive adoption of herbicide-based technologies along with the …

Although evolution has been often seen as a gradual process through a Darwinian lens, far
more rapid evolutionary change has been observed in recent times. Recent examples …

Relay intercropping of subsidiary legumes with durum wheat (living mulch) can be a viable
option to support ecological weed control and optimize nutrient cycling in cereal-based …

Anticipating future biosecurity threats to prevent their occurrence is the most cost‐effective
strategy to manage invasive alien species. Yet, biological invasions are complex, highly …