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Herbicide resistance work in the United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service
Author(s) -
Vaughn Kevin C
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
pest management science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.296
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1526-4998
pISSN - 1526-498X
DOI - 10.1002/ps.696
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , agriculture , weed , herbicide resistance , weed science , service (business) , biology , agronomy , weed control , pesticide resistance , microbiology and biotechnology , pesticide , business , ecology , marketing
Herbicide‐resistant weed biotypes are an increasing problem in agriculture, with reports of resistance to almost every herbicide class at some place in the world, and the total number of resistant biotypes at over 250. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have been key players in this area since the first substantiated occurrence of these resistant biotypes in the 1970s. The most significant of their contributions is the complete unraveling of the mechanism of triazine resistance by Arntzen and colleagues, then with ARS at the University of Illinois. These studies established a high benchmark for research in this area and are a model for all studies in this area. Other ARS scientists have investigated a large number of weed biotypes with resistance to a wide range of herbicide classes and mechanisms of resistance. Collectively, these studies have been used to generate herbicide resistance‐management schemes for growers, based upon the herbicide site and the potential for resistance development. Published in 2003 for SCI by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.