Roles of the new journal

On publishing the new journal entirely written in English, its expected roles are discussed as a part of WSSJ Society activities. Since weed management is conducted as a part of the practices of agriculture, horticulture and forestry, and also non‐arable land sustainment, its reformation or innovation is inevitably influenced by socioeconomic globalization of those primary industries. The importance of international exchange of information and technology in weed science and technology is emphasized, but investigations on local weed distribution under the local climatic, soil and water conditions are also stressed as fundamental for development and settlement of innovated technologies. On of the major purposes of weed science and technology is to research the biodiversity of weeds by various approaches of relevant fields of sciences such as ecology, biology, physiology, biochemistry and chemical ecology. Biosystemics and gene technology have been preferably introduced for understanding of species biology of weeds. The concept of the biodiversity of weeds implies both their sustainable and species‐specific changeable properties. With weeds resistant to xenobiotics or adaptability of weeds to environmental impacts, active utilization of weeds is indicated as a possible important subject. Exchange of information and technologies in the Asian–Pacific region is discussed especially in terms of an international journal with pre‐review system.