The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) announced earlier this month several new or updated educational publications about weeds and weed impacts that will be of interest to both the scientific community as well as the general public.

Click here for the press release and an overview of the publications.  Or you can get to the individual publications by clicking below:

• Weed Definitions (weeds, noxious weeds, invasive weeds, and "superweeds" among...

Link to a recent (July 2014) research article in California Agriculture (link to table of contents for volume 68)

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The article by E.D. Brusati, D.W. Johnson, and J.M. DiTomaso is entitled "Predicting Invasive Plants in...

I received an extension question this week about controlling bamboo that I thought I'd share.

In essence, the situation was that one neighbor had a large stand of bamboo on the property line and, because it is a "running" rather than "clumping" type of bamboo, it was invading the other neighbor's side of the property line.   Bamboo neighbor likes the bamboo and the privacy afforded by the stand, other neighbor does not like bamboo creeping into their lawn and landscape.  The question was "how do I control the invading bamboo without killing the whole (clonal) stand?".

They had been cutting the invadors and spraying the shoots with glyphosate with...

Link here for the full WSSA press release

Battling Spurge:  WSSA Offers Weed Control Tips for Nurseries and Homeowners