Effects of Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Cultivation Investigating the Dur

In France in 2009, several crop destruction campaigns targeted herbicide-tolerant (HT) sunflowers obtained by mutagenesis. Facing this emerging debate on HT crops, the French Ministries in charge of Agriculture and of Ecology asked INRA and CNRS to gather

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fects of HerbicideTolerant Crop Cultivation Investigating the Durability of a Weed Management Tool

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Effects of Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Cultivation

Michel Beckert  •  Yves Dessaux

Effects of Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Cultivation Investigating the Durability of a Weed Management Tool CNRS-INRA Collective scientific expertise

Michel Beckert Unité génétique, diversité, écophysiologie des Céréales INRA, Clermont-Ferrand – Theix Research Center Clermont-Ferrand, France

Yves Dessaux CNRS, Institut des Sciences du végétal Gif-sur-Yvettes, France

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Foreword

The post-war introduction of chemical herbicides significantly facilitated crop management by reducing weed competition, thus making possible both increased yields and increased opportunities for mechanised harve