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ESTEFANIA C. SALVADOR 2/
Since the beginning of recorded history, weeds
have demonstrated aggressive characteristics
and growth that have interfered with human
activities in many different ways accordingly,
human being have exerted extensive efforts to
control the growth and spread of these plants.
The destruction of weeds was established as
one of the original features of crop production
before the dawn of recorded history.
Throughout the ages, people have been forced
to control weeds if their food crops were to
produce acceptable yields.
Weeds, unlike all other kinds of pests, are
similar to the plants they injure. Domesticated
plants are almost always higher - order plants.
Weeds likewise are higher –order plants and,
therefore, have the same general growth
requirements as the plant with which they
compete. A common practice is to ensure an
adequate supply of nutrients and water to the
crop plants. Weeds that grow adjacent to the crop
plants compete with them for these basic
requirements. Weed – control procedures, then
must have to be done to protect the crop plants
while providing control of the similar weed plants.
Weed Science – is the study of weeds and their
control, whether it be manual, mechanical,
cultural, biological, chemical, or ecological
internodes.
Leaves arises alternately in two rows from the nodes
stem
Absence of a ligule
Fusion of leaf sheaths forming a tube around
the stem
Examples – Cyperus rotundus
Cyperus iria
Broadleaf Weeds
belonging to the other family of
Monocotyledonae and Dicotyledonae.
identified by their fully expanded, broadleaf