Molecular Mechanisms of Herbicide Selectivity

Because plants of different species vary in the way in which they take up, transport, and metabolize chemicals in the soil, selective herbicides can be synthesized. This book examines those aspects of plant physiology, principally in crop plants, which can be affected by herbicides; the possibilities that are offered by recombinant DNA technology for developing resistance to herbicides; and methods for exploiting or preventing acquired tolerance. The author also covers recent work on ultra-selective mycoherbicides and the use of allelochemicals as herbicide substitutes.Hathway, D. E. is the author of 'Molecular Mechanisms of Herbicide Selectivity', published 1989 under ISBN 9780198576426 and ISBN 0198576420.