BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS IN WEED MANAGEMENT IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Weeds represent a major problem in crop production, and their management in modern agriculture is crucial to avoid yield losses and ensure food security. Intensive agricultural practices, climate change and natural disasters affect population dynamics and this requires a change in weed management protocols. Emerging innovative trends in the field of biotechnology in weed management offer sustainable hope for the future; biotechnological tools that can contribute to weed management are herbicide-resistant crops, improved biocontrol agents, development of transgenic allelopathy in crops and characterization of weeds using molecular systems.