Weeds have always been a significant problem for agriculture. They compete with crops for resources such as light, water and nutrients, which can result in severe yield losses.
resistance in perennial weeds that enables predictions for a specific weed. The study was recently published inThe introduction of herbicides in the second half of the last century was a major breakthrough forin conventional agriculture. Herbicides allow efficient removal of weeds with particularly low labor input and have largely replaced manual or purely mechanical removal.
have a competitive advantage, and their share of the population increases rapidly. Once the proportion of resistant plants is high enough, the weed population is no longer suppressed by the herbicide.Perennial weeds such as Johnson grass are particularly difficult to control and can lead to immense yield losses. The reason for this is that they reproduce sexually via seeds but can also reproduce vegetatively through shoot axes growing horizontally underground, the so-called rhizomes.
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