Fundamentals Of Weed Science
In the field of crop production, weed science is probably growing the fastest of all its different component disciplines. It is so in India as well as in the rest of the world. These advancements in weed science are on aspects like agronomy, plant physiology, plant biochemistry, organic chemistry, soil science, microbiology, and genetic engineering. Every year in India alone over 100 research papers and reports on weed science are added, largely in the field of agronomy. Therefore, the author considered it inevitable to prepare this new title with latest information in the interest of the students of this fascinating science.
An important feature of advances in weed science is that while, by and large, the older findings remain valid, the new ones act as complements and not as substitutes to these. Therefore, in this new title of weed science in your hands, care has been taken to maintain the rationality of the basic information on the subject while incorporating carefully the selected, recent research findings. The students have been introduced to major new aspects of weed science, like the Herbicide Residues, Herbicide Resistance, Allelopathic Control of Weeds, Role of Genetic Engineering in Weed Science, Invasive Alien Weeds, and functions of some latest, commercially exploited herbicide molecules. Besides, almost 80 lively sketches of common weeds of different situations, both from the north and south India, have been provided, particularly in Chapters 15 and 16 and Appendix-1, along with their scientific names, common names, families, and growth duration, etc.
Dr. (Prof.) Gupta OP
Dr. O.P. Gupta was born on 19th September 1933 at Delhi. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Agronomy from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, with research specialisation in Weed Science in 1960.
Dr. Gupta started his career as Assistant Professor of Agronomy at the GBPAU Pant Nagar, now in Uttaranchal. He then shifted in 1961 to the erstwhile University of Udaipur, Udaipur, which was later reconstituted as the Rajasthan Agricultural University at Bikaner. In 1970, Dr. Gupta visited the USA for his Post-Doctoral work in Agronomy (Weed Science). The author again went abroad as Visiting Professor of Agronomy during 1976 to 1979. Upon his return he was offered Professorships at the Agricultural Universities in Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Afghanistan. Dr. O.P. Gupta retired as Professor and Director Research from the unbifurcated RAU, Bikaner in 1993.
Dr. O.P. Gupta spent his academic lifetime pursuing research in weed science. He strongly professed the importance of ecological approach to weed management and need to use herbicides as complements, and not as substitutes, to the Good Crop Husbandry Practices in agriculture. Dr. Gupta published over 60 research papers on different agronomic aspects of weed science, including on aquatic weed management. Also, he directed great part of his life in teaching postgraduate courses in weed science and guiding his M.Sc. and Ph.D. students of Agronomy.
Dr. Gupta received his Lifetime Achievement Award from Indian Society of Weed Science in the year 2010. He has been for several years on the ICAR, New Delhi committees relating to weed science like the Research Advisory Committees and the Quinquennial Review Teams. He has also been on the selection committees of ASRB, New Delhi, both before and after his retirement from the university services.
Dr. Gupta continues to be active till date in promoting weed science through his books like the present one, besides having been the chairmen of vice chancellor search committee.
Table of Contents..
- Weeds and Our Concern
- Weed-Crop Competition
- Propagation and Dispersal of Weeds
- Weed Hardiness and Persistence
- Classification of Weeds and their Distribution
- Elements of Prevention and Control of Weeds
- Cultural and Physical Methods of Weed Control
- Biological Control of Weeds
- Weed Control through Herbicides
- Herbicide Selectivity
- Common Herbicides and their Uses
- Fate of Herbicides in Soils
- Herbicide Use in Field Crops and Vegetables
- Herbicide Use in Orchards, Plantations and Grasslands
- Noxious Farm Weeds and their Control
- Aquatic Weed Management
- Glossary of Terms Often Used in Weed Science
- Appendix
- Subject Index
Table of Contents..
Book Details
Book Title:
Fundamentals Of Weed Science
Fundamentals Of Weed Science
Book Type:
TEXT-CUM-REFERENCES BOOK
TEXT-CUM-REFERENCES BOOK
No Of Pages:
398
398
Color Pages :
0
0
Color Pages :
0
0
Book Size:
DEMY (5.5X8.5)
DEMY (5.5X8.5)
Weight:
600 Gms
600 Gms
Copyright Holder:
All Rights Reserved
All Rights Reserved
Imprint:
M/s AGROBIOS (INDIA)
M/s AGROBIOS (INDIA)
Readership:
PG STUDENTS | SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS | UG STUDENTS |
PG STUDENTS | SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS | UG STUDENTS |