Mechanical weed management

Non-Chemical Weed Management: Principles, Concepts and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 111-134

  Cloutier, D C ^a   van der Weide, R Y ^b   Peruzzi, A ^c   Leblanc, M L ^d  

^a Institut de Malherbologie   (Canada)

^b Applied Plant Research   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d Institut de recherche et de developpement en agroenvironnement   (Canada)

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