UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

Weeds in young orchards compete with trees for orchard resources such as sunlight, water and nutrients. This can lead to reductions in growth and future yields.

From the TOPICS IN SUBTROPICS blog (Jan. 10, 2020) Proper weed management is important for several reason, but in general younger orchards are much more susceptible to the negative impacts of weed overgrowth.

For the past several years, California rice has been dealing with a pesky new weed, weedy rice aka red rice. Weedy rice is a difficult pest to manage, because it is the same species as rice (both are Oryza sativa L.), rendering herbicide use next-to-impossible.

Principal Weed Scientist IR-4 Project, North Carolina State University Closing date: 1/21/2020 For more information, visit https://jobs.ncsu.

New research published in PNAS (Fusco et al 2019) highlights the role of invasive grasses in creating new wildfire regimes at not just local but regional scales.