Modeling the Biology of Weeds for Integrated Weed Management

In a special symposium on weed biology presented at the 1975 annual meeting of the Weed Science Society of America, Parka (37) reviewed the trend of published papers in WEED SCIENCE related to weed biology over the 20-yr period, 1952 to 1972. His data indicated a steady increase from 9.2 to 17.2% of published papers directly related to weed growth and development. My recent assessment of similarly classified papers in 1978, 1979, and 1980 showed a remarkable increase to 21.9, 24.3, and 27.2%, respectively. Further, the more recent papers on weed growth and development also include crop-effect data, i.e., the association of weed growth with crop competition.