Every year in Australia, we hold a national meeting where scientists researching weed, insect and disease resistance get together to share their knowledge and learn from each other. It’s a bit like a meeting between firefighters, police and ambulanceworkers. Same objective, different issues.After the first of these meetings, I came away and thought, “thank goodness I’m working on weeds, at least they stay roughly in the same place and we can target the seed bank!” The researchers and agronomists are all working on the same thing, resistance, but are the management practices the same or different?A recent review paper by Hugh Beckie and Roberto Busi from AHRI, along with Fran Lopez-Ruiz (CCDM) and Paul Umina (Cesar Australia), concluded that the management strategies are more common than they are different.
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