Abstract Glyphosate, introduced by Monsanto Company under the commercial name
Roundup in 1974, became the extensively used herbicide worldwide in the last few …

Farmland biodiversity is an important characteristic when assessing sustainability of
agricultural practices and is of major international concern. Scientific data indicate that …

Development of herbicide-resistant crops has resulted in significant changes to agronomic
practices, one of which is the adoption of effective, simple, low-risk, crop-production systems …

Agricultural weeds evolve in response to crop cultivation. Nevertheless, the central
importance of evolutionary ecology for understanding weed invasion, persistence and …

Repeated use of xenobiotic chemicals has selected for the rapid evolution of resistance,
threatening health and food security at a global scale. Strategies for preventing the evolution …

Concern about environmental protection has increased over the years from a global
viewpoint. To date, the percolation of pesticide waste into the groundwater tables and …

Herbicides play an important role in preventing crop yield losses due to both their weed
interference ability and their capacity for increasing soil conservation in no-till systems …

Evolution of resistance in weeds to herbicides is threatening world agricultural production.
Weed management has become more complicated with the development of non-target site …

Herbicide rate cutting is an example of poor use of agrochemicals that can have potential
adverse implications due to rapid herbicide resistance evolution. Recent laboratory-level …

The intensive use of glyphosate alone to manage weeds has selected populations that are
glyphosate resistant. The three mechanisms of glyphosate resistance that have been …