• Press Release: WSSA Endorses Strategies To Reduce The Threat Of Herbicide Resistance to Agricultural Productivity
• Press Release: WSSA Says Online Databases and Smartphone Apps Make It Easier than Ever to Track Invasive Weeds
• 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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  • AAPSE PSEP Funding Survey
• Recent Press Releases: Invasive Weed Apps; Herbicide Resistance; Hydrilla Infestation; more...

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

Online databases and new smartphone applications are making it easier than ever to track and map infestations of invasive weeds, the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) said today....

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.

• Press Release
• Technical Paper
• AAPSE PSEP Funding Survey