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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionWeed science is a scientific discipline concerned with plants that may be considered weeds, their effects on human activities, and their management. 1 Weed Science
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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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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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It was founded in 1956.
Wikipedia: Karl Fritz Lauer
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Karl Fritz Lauer (11 April 1938-5 June 2018) was a Romanian-German agricultural scientist in phytopathology and herbology.
Rene Van Acker - Wikipedia
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Rene Van Acker is a Canadian agricultural scientist and academic leader, who is currently the 10th President and Vice‑Chancellor of the University of Guelph, having assumed the role on 2 July 2025. He has made contributions to the fields of weed science, sustainable agriculture, and academic administration.
Masanobu Fukuoka (Wikipedia)
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He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide-free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming".
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