The World's Worst Weeds: Distribution and Biology

By: LeRoy G. Holm and Donald L. Plucknett and Juan V. Pancho and James P. Herberger

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Synopsis: This is an inventory of the principal weeds of the world’s major crops, with particular emphasis on their distribution, seriousness, and their known biology. From the time man first learned to plant seeds and harvest crops, weeds have been rather casually accepted as an inevitable nuisance. Only in recent years have we become aware of the staggering losses inflicted on a food-short world by destructive weeds. The origins of this book are deeply buried in this tradition of general acceptance of destruction by the world’s worst weeds, and it is the authors’ hope that this inventory may in some small way help the efforts of scientists and policymakers as they tackle a problem which can be solved.