• Press Release: WSSA Endorses Strategies To Reduce The Threat Of Herbicide Resistance to Agricultural Productivity
• WSSA April Newsletter is Online
• WSSA EPA Liaison Report: 1st Quarter, 2012
• WSSA 2012 Meeting Abstracts Are Online
• APMS News Blog is Online
• APMS Graduate Student Research Grant
• WSSA Lesson Modules: Herbicide Resistant Weeds
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• Super Committee letter in support of research for food/ag
• Scientists Point To Precarious State Of U.S. Pesticide Safety Education Program
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• Recent Press Releases: Hydrilla Infestation; 2012 Award Winners; Summit on Herbicide-Resistant Weeds; more...

Visit the WSSA Abstracts webpage to view the abstracts from 2007-2012.

Six months ago one of the world’s most aggressive aquatic weeds was spotted in an inlet adjoining Cayuga Lake, part of New York’s famed Finger Lakes. The culprit was hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata), an aquatic plant species holding a well-earned spot on the federal noxious weeds list. Officials fear an environmental disaster in the making...

Herbicide resistance education and training have been identified as critical paths in advancing the adoption of proactive best management programs to delay or mitigate the evolution of herbicide-resistant weeds. Five lessons have been created for an intended audience of consultant–field advisor–certified agronomist.

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Scientists with the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA), the American Phytopathological Society (APS) and the Entomological Society of America (ESA) expressed concern about the precarious state of the U.S. Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP). Funding for the program has plummeted in recent years and is now in danger of evaporating completely.

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• AAPSE PSEP Funding Survey