Molecular biology applied to weed science

Abstract

The weeds have high genetic variability, mainly for this, they are adapted to environments disturbed by humans. Although weed control has evolved positively in recent years, they continue to interfere with agricultural production. The objective of this bibliographic review is to present the contribution of molecular biology in the studies applied to herbology. There area gap in what we learn about weed genomics, which could help us manage and improve the competitiveness of weed crops. Many studies in the field of weed science can be carried out using molecular biology techniques. The characterization of the genome of weed species, aiming to identify species with higher accuracy, identification of herbicide resistant species and its mechanism of resistance, genetic variability and similarity among weed populations, identification of genes involved in the interaction processes between plants, among other.