2.1 Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain how scientific approaches can help with weed management.
• List traits of an “ideal” weed.
• Contrast woody and herbaceous weeds, as well as annual, biennial and perennial weeds.
• Describe ways weeds interfere with crops.
• List ways weeds reproduce.
• Define Vocabulary Words:  annual, winter annual, summer annual,  biennial, perennial, simple perennial, creeping perennial, vegetative propagule, adventitious tissue, vegetative reproduction, dicot, monocot, interference, allelopathy, competition, parasitism