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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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National Summit on
Strategies to Manage
Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP

Organized by the
Planning Committee for a National Summit on
Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Division on Earth and Life Studies

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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This study was funded by the Herbicide Resistance Action Committee, the Iowa Soybean Association, the National Cotton Council of America, the United Soybean Board, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service; the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture; and the Weed Science Society of America. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR A NATIONAL SUMMIT ON STRATEGIES TO MANAGE HERBICIDE-RESISTANT WEEDS

CHARLES J. ARNTZEN (Chair), Arizona State University, Tempe

HAROLD D. COBLE, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

DAVID E. ERVIN, Portland State University, Oregon

JODIE S. HOLT, University of California, Riverside

TERRANCE M. HURLEY, University of Minnesota, St. Paul

RAYMOND A. JUSSAUME, JR., Michigan State University, East Lansing

MICHEAL D. K. OWEN, Iowa State University, Ames

JILL SCHROEDER, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces

DAVID R. SHAW, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State

Staff

KARA N. LANEY, Program Officer

RUTHIE S. ARIETI, Research Associate

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2012. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13518.
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BOARD ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES

NORMAN R. SCOTT (Chair), Cornell University (Emeritus), Ithaca, New York

PEGGY F. BARLETT, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

HAROLD L. BERGMAN, University of Wyoming, Laramie

RICHARD A. DIXON, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma

DANIEL M. DOOLEY, University of California, Oakland

JOAN H. EISEMANN, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

GARY F. HARTNELL, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri

GENE HUGOSON, Global Initiatives for Food Systems Leadership, St. Paul, Minnesota

MOLLY M. JAHN, University of Wisconsin, Madison

ROBBIN S. JOHNSON, Cargill Foundation, Wayzata, Minnesota

A.G. KAWAMURA, Solutions from the Land, Washington, DC

KIRK C. KLASING, University of California, Davis

JULIA L. KORNEGAY, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

VICTOR L. LECHTENBERG, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

PHILIP E. NELSON, Purdue University (Emeritus), West Lafayette, Indiana

KEITH PITTS, Marrone Bio Innovations, Davis, California

CHARLES W. RICE, Kansas State University, Manhattan

HAL SALWASSER, Oregon State University, Corvallis

ROGER A. SEDJO, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC

KATHLEEN SEGERSON, University of Connecticut, Storrs

MERCEDES VÁZQUEZ-AÑÓN, Novus International, Inc., St. Charles, Missouri

Staff

ROBIN A. SCHOEN, Board Director

EVONNE P. Y. TANG, Senior Program Officer

CAMILLA YANDOC ABLES, Program Officer

KARA N. LANEY, Program Officer

PEGGY TSAI, Program Officer

KAREN L. IMHOF, Administrative Coordinator

JANET M. MULLIGAN, Senior Program Associate for Research

RUTHIE S. ARIETI, Research Associate

KATHLEEN REIMER, Senior Program Assistant

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Acknowledgments

This proceedings has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making the published proceedings as sound as possible and to ensure that the proceedings meets institutional standards of objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following for their review of this proceedings:

Stephen O. Duke, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, University, Mississippi

David E. Ervin, Portland State University, Oregon

Jerry Green, DuPont Ag Biotechnology/Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Newark, Delaware

Raymond A. Jussaume, Jr., Michigan State University, East Lansing

Nancy Ragsdale, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (retired), Beltsville, Maryland

Siyuan Tan, BASF Corporation, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Alan Tasker, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Riverdale, Maryland

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of this proceedings before its release. The review of this proceedings was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and all review comments were carefully considered.

The National Research Council would like to thank the generous sponsors of this project.

Herbicide Resistance Action Committee

Iowa Soybean Association

National Cotton Council of America

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United Soybean Board

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Weed Science Society of America

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Preface

Preserving the efficacy of herbicides and of herbicide-resistance technology depends on awareness of the increasing resistance of weeds to herbicides used in agriculture and coordinated action to address the problem by individuals at the farm level and beyond. This summit served as a venue to bring the attention of important stakeholders to the issue and as an opportunity for experts from diverse disciplines to strategize in a coordinated way to address herbicide-resistant weeds. In convening stakeholders for this event, participants took a step toward a recommendation from the 2010 National Research Council report, The Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States, that federal and state government agencies, private-sector technology developers, universities, farmer organizations, and other relevant stakeholders collaborate to document emerging weed-resistance problems and to develop cost-effective resistance-management programs and practices that preserve effective weed control. The summit provided the opportunity for stakeholders to explore the scientific basis of the emergence of herbicide resistance and to consider different perspectives on both opportunities and barriers to overcoming the problem of herbicide-resistant weeds. Summaries, presentation materials, and a video recording of the summit can be found at http://nas-sites.org/hr-weeds-summit/. This document contains a brief synopsis of key points made by each speaker at the summit. The National Research Council does not endorse the statements made by summit presenters.

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Horseweed (Marestail. Conyza canadensis; mature plant), courtesy of the Weed Science Society of America.

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Preserving the efficacy of herbicides and of herbicide-resistance technology depends on awareness of the increasing resistance of weeds to herbicides used in agriculture and coordinated action to address the problem by individuals at the farm level and beyond. This summit served as a venue to bring the attention of important stakeholders to the issue and as an opportunity for experts from diverse disciplines to strategize in a coordinated way to address herbicide-resistant weeds.

In convening stakeholders for this event, participants took a step toward a recommendation from the 2010 National Research Council report The Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States that federal and state government agencies, private-sector technology developers, universities, farmer organizations, and other relevant stakeholders collaborate to document emerging weed-resistance problems and to develop cost-effective resistance-management programs and practices that preserve effective weed control. The summit provided the opportunity for stakeholders to explore the scientific basis of the emergence of herbicide resistance and to consider different perspectives on both opportunities and barriers to overcoming the problem of herbicide-resistant weeds. National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds contains a brief synopsis of key points made by each speaker at the summit.

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