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Weed Science

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The study of unwanted plants competing with a crop: which species become problem weeds, how they spread and evolve resistance, and how they are managed without wrecking the field around them. It is one of agriculture's youngest formal disciplines, arriving only once herbicides gave it something to test.

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Weed science is a scientific discipline concerned with plants that may be considered weeds, their effects on human activities, and their management. 1
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Agricultural Entomology, Disciplines
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Plant Pathology, Disciplines
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1. Weed Science (Wikipedia)
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the emergence of weed science is comparatively recent, occurring largely within the 20th century and coinciding with the development of herbicides
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1. Weed Science (Wikipedia)
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Weed science is a scientific discipline concerned with plants that may be considered weeds, their effects on human activities, and their management
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Weed Science Society of America (Wikipedia)
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It was founded in 1956.
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