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Status of Weed Science–A Worlds' Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

J. D. Fryer*
Affiliation:
Agric. Res. Council, Weed Res. Organization, Begbroke Hill, Yarnton, Oxford, UK

Extract

Before I try to paint a broad canvas as a background to this evening's discussion I think we should be clear what we mean by ‘discipline of weed science’. The word ‘discipline’ according to the Oxford English Dictionary means ‘a department of knowledge’ or ‘the art of war’. This latter 15th Century definition might seem appropriate to our struggle against weeds! What, though, is meant by ‘weed science’?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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