Download e-book for iPad: Effects of Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Cultivation: by Michel Beckert,Yves Dessaux

By Michel Beckert,Yves Dessaux

ISBN-10: 9402410066

ISBN-13: 9789402410068

total, this paintings identifies key issues to be taken into consideration while drawing up directions that govern the use of herbicide-tolerant (HT) plants with the intention to safeguard the effectiveness of this innovation over the years. This multidisciplinary specialist file, in accordance with a global literature overview, assesses the consequences of the cultivation of vegetation owning HT features. HT plants might sound to be necessary complementary instruments while farmers are dealing with sure tough weed-management occasions or within the context of a diversification of weed-control options. Their repeated use, even though, can swiftly set off alterations within the weed plant life which can represent extra complicated demanding situations by way of weed regulate. matters bobbing up with the advance of agricultural creation platforms together with HT vegetation are the gadgets of this specialist record: what are the perceptions of those forms by way of society and the explanations for his or her adoption through farmers? Are the reductions on herbicides promoted by way of seed businesses long-lasting? Can the cultivation of HT plants effect biodiversity?

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