Advantages and limitations in bioherbicides use

Limitations of bioherbicides:
- biological constraints
- environment constraints
- technical constraints and
- commercial limitations
Bioherbicides
phytopathogenic microorganisms or
microbial phytotoxins useful for biological
weed control applied in similar ways to
conventional herbicides (Goeden, 1999;
Boyetchko et al., 2002; Boyetchko and
Peng, 2004)
Bioherbicides serves a more important role as a complimentary
component in successful integrated management strategies
(Hoagland et al., 2007), and not as a replacement for chemical
herbicides and other weed management tactics (Singh et al., 2006)
Advantages of bioherbicides:
high degree of specificity of target weed;
no effect on non-target and beneficial plants or man;
absence of residue build-up in the environment;
effectiveness for managing herbicide-resistant (HR) weed populations