Dr Robert L. Zimdahl is Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University, USA. He is a Fellow of the Weed Science Society of America, Western Society of Weed Science, American Society of Agronomy, and former Editor of Weed Science. He has published on weed science, including the standard text Fundamentals of Weed Science, currently in its fifth edition. The sixth edition will be available in 2023. Dr Zimdahl is also editor of Integrated weed management for sustainable agriculture, published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing in 2017.

• Part 1 Weeds1.Weed ecology and population dynamics: Adam S. Davis, USDA-ARS, USA; 2.Weed-plant interactions: Bruce Maxwell, Montana State University, USA; 3.Invasive weed species and their effects: David R. Clements, Trinity Western University, Canada; Part 2 IWM principles4.Key issues and challenges of integrated weed management: C. J. Swanton and T. Valente, University of Guelph, Canada; 5.Ethical issues in integrated weed management: Robert L. Zimdahl, Colorado State University, USA6.Surveillance and monitoring of weed populations: Anita Dille, Kansas State University, USA; Part 3 Using herbicides in integrated weed management7.Site-specific weed management: S. A. Clay and S. A. Bruggeman, South Dakota State University, USA; 8.Assessing and minimizing the environmental effects of herbicides: Chris Preston, University of Adelaide, Australia; 9.Trends in the development of herbicide-resistant weeds: Ian Heap, International Survey of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds, USA; Part 4 Cultural and physical methods for weed control10.The role of herbicide-resistant crops in integrated weed management: Prashant Jha, Montana State University, USA; and Krishna Reddy, USDA-ARS, USA; 11.Cultural techniques to manage weeds: Matt Liebman, Iowa State University, USA; 12.The use of rotations and cover crops to manage weeds: John R. Teasdale, USDA-ARS, USA; 13.Developments in physical weed control: Eric R. Gallandt, University of Maine, USA; Daniel Brainard, Michigan State University, USA; and Bryan Brown, University of Maine, USA; 14.Flame weeding techniques: Stevan Z. Knezevic, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA; 15.Soil solarization: a sustainable method for weed management: Baruch Rubin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; and Abraham Gamliel, The Volcani Center, Israel; 16.Weed management in organic crop cultivation: Greta Gramig, North Dakota State University, USA; Part 5 Biological methods for weed control17.The use of allelopathy and competitive crop cultivars for weed suppression in cereal crops: James M. Mwendwa, Charles Sturt University, Australia; Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer, Ashland University, USA; and Leslie A. Weston, Charles Sturt University, Australia; 18.Bio-herbicides: an overview: Erin Rosskopf, USDA-ARS, United States Horticultural Laboratory, USA; Raghavan Charudattan, BioProdex Inc., USA; and William Bruckart, USDA-ARS, Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit, USA 19.The use of microorganisms in integrated weed management: Susan M. Boyetchko, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Canada; 20.The use of bacteria in integrated weed management: Ann C. Kennedy, USDA-ARS and Washington State University, USA; 21.The use of insects in integrated weed management: Sandrine Petit and David A. Bohan, UMR Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France;

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