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Training Weed Scientists for Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Robert H. Walker  and
Gale A. Buchanan
Robert H. Walker
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. Soils, AL Agric. Exp. Stn., Auburn Univ., AL 36849
Gale A. Buchanan
Affiliation:
GA Agric. Exp. Stn., and Resident Dir., Coastal Plains Exp. Stn., Tifton, GA 31793
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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to discuss ways to improve training of weed scientists for research, including student backgrounds, appreciation for total production systems, economics, computer science and technology, reassessment of technical subject matter areas, and practical experience.

Keywords

University scientistsindustry scientistscurriculuminternshippractical experience.
Type
Symposium
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 247 - 249
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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