UID:
almahu_9948025995102882
Format:
1 online resource (220 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-54155-2
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9786612541551
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0-12-381502-9
Series Statement:
Elsevier insights
Content:
It is important that scientists think about and know their history - where they came from, what they have accomplished, and how these may affect the future. Weed scientists, similar to scientists in many technological disciplines, have not sought historical reflection. The technological world asks for results and for progress. Achievement is important not, in general, the road that leads to achievement. What was new yesterday is routine today, and what is described as revolutionary today may be considered antiquated tomorrow. Weed science has been strongly influenced by technology de
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front cover; A history of weed science in the united states; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1 Why write a history?; Chapter 2 The development of entomology and plant pathology and their societies in comparison to weed science; Entomology; Plant pathology; Chapter 3 Beginning the study of weeds; A brief story of agriculture; The beginning of the study of weeds; Chapter 4 The founders; Henry Luke Bolley; Wilfred W. Robbins; Alden Springer Crafts; Charles J. Willard; James W. Zahnley; Thomas K. Pavlychenko; Erhardt P. (Dutch) Sylwester; Robert Henderson Beatty
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Marion W. ParkerWilliam B. Ennis, Jr.; Warren Cleaton Shaw; Francis Leonard Timmons; Robert D. Sweet; Oliver Andrew Leonard; Clarence I. Seeley; George Frederick Warren III; Kenneth P. Buchholtz; Ellery Louis Knake; Fred W. Slife; Boysie Eugene Day; Leroy George Holm; William R. Furtick; Donald E. Davis; Chester Gray McWhorter; Fanny Fern Davis; Chapter 5 Creation and development of university weed science programs; Chapter 6 Development of herbicides after 1945; 2,4-D, the phenoxyacetic acids, and the beginning of rational herbicide development; Amino triazole; 2,4,5-T
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The substituted urea herbicidesThe triazine herbicides; The dinitroanilines; Paraquat and diquat; Monsanto herbicides and the roundup story; The sulfonylurea herbicides; The imidazolinone herbicides; Chapter 7 Creation and development of weed societies; The Western Society of Weed Science; The North Central Weed Science Society; The Northeastern Weed Science Society; The Southern Weed Science Society; Canadian Weed Conferences; The Weed Science Society of America; Concluding comments; Presidential comments; Writing history; The presidents; What the presidents said
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Chapter 8 Weed science and changes in agricultural practiceChapter 9 Weed science and the agrochemical industry; Chapter 10 The consequences of weed science's pattern of development; Herbicide resistance; Biotechnology; Sustainability; Organic agriculture; Ethics
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-323-16501-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-381495-2
Language:
English
