chapter 1 Introduction: Advancement of Weed Science as an Important Discipline of Agriculture / Aruna Varanasi -- chapter 2 Targeting Weed Seedbanks: Implications for Weed Management / Prashant Jha -- chapter 3 Effect of Environmental Factors on Weed Germination and Management / Neha Rana -- chapter 4 A New Approach to Weed Control in Cropping Systems / Michael Walsh -- chapter 5 Evolution of Weed Resistance to Herbicides: What Have We Learned After 70 Years? / Stephen O. Duke -- chapter 6 Inter-specific Gene Flow from Herbicide-Tolerant Crops to their Wild Relatives / Amit J. Jhala -- chapter 7 Crop Selectivity and Herbicide Safeners: Historical Perspectives and Development, Safener-Regulated Gene Expression, Signaling, and New Research Directions / Dean E. Riechers -- chapter 8 Recent Advances in Deciphering Metabolic Herbicide Resistance Mechanisms / Vijay K. Nandula -- chapter 9 Recent Advances in Target Site Herbicide Resistance Mechanisms / Christopher Preston -- chapter 10 Gene Amplification and Herbicide Resistance: Application of Molecular Cytogenetic Tools -- chapter 11 Applications of Genomics in Weed Science / Todd A. Gaines.

The book provides comprehensive information on a wide range of topics from biology, physiology, genetics to the use of genomic tools in weed science. The book covers information at a more advanced level than the previously published books in weed science. It covers not only weed genetics and genomics research, but also weed management from an ecological perspective. Furthermore, the book also gives a broad coverage of novel mechanisms of weed resistance to herbicides. More importantly, it includes next generation sequencing techniques and bioinformatics of herbicide resistant genes in weeds.--Provided by publisher.