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Weeds Management in Sugarcane: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

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Agro-industrial Perspectives on Sugarcane Production under Environmental Stress

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Among the sugarcane production constraints, weed interference is dominant. Weeds compete with sugarcane crops for water, light, and nutrients, demanding better and more accurate control measures. Chemical weed control with pre- and/or post-emergence herbicides is mainly used, as sugarcane fields are usually large, requiring fast, efficient, and economically feasible weed control approaches. Furthermore, various weed species evolved resistance to different herbicidal mechanisms of action, and some herbicides effective earlier are now ineffective. Sugarcane is planted in numerous geographic systems. Depending on the application approaches, there will be changes in the composition of weed species, thus demanding specific herbicides and duration of application. To achieve high sugarcane yields, suitable genotypes with high productivity should be planted and as result, these varieties could be adapted to stress environmental conditions and interaction with selective herbicides. Furthermore, alternative weed management strategies such as integrated weed management, crop rotation, and alternative herbicide mechanisms of action will reduce problems with weed resistance in sugarcane fields and herbicide damages to crop plants.

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  1. Sustainable Agricultural Management, Federal University of the Southern Border, Erechim, RS, Brazil

    Leandro Galon

  2. Department of Plant Protection, Sugarcane and By-products Development Company, Salman Farsi Agro-Industry, Ahwaz, Iran

    Amin Nikpay & Peyman Sharafizadeh

  3. Institute of Plant Protection, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, China

    Yong-Lin Ma

  4. Sustainable Cropping Systems, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Evander Alves Ferreira

  5. Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production Science, The University of Agriculture, Peshavar, Pakistan

    Fazal Munsif

  6. Department of Plant Protection, Agriculture Faculty, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

    Masumeh Ziaee

  7. Sustainable Cropping Systems, Embrapa, Pelotas, RS, Brazil

    Germani Concenco

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    Krishan K. Verma

  2. Sugarcane Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, China

    Xiu-Peng Song

  3. Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

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Galon, L. et al. (2022). Weeds Management in Sugarcane: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives. In: Verma, K.K., Song, XP., Rajput, V.D., Solomon, S., Li, YR., Rao, G.P. (eds) Agro-industrial Perspectives on Sugarcane Production under Environmental Stress. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3955-6_16

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