Section I. WEED-CONTROL PRINCIPLES

1. Weeds
Losses Due to Weeds / Adverse Effects of Weeds / Weeds as Host Plants / Hay Fever and Dermatitis / Classification of Weeds / Wood Dissemination / Weed-Crop Competition / Allelopathy / Poisonous Plants / Foreign Plants Introduced into the United States

2. Weed Ecology
Weed Seeds / Weed Seed Bank / Weed Seed Production / Seed Dormancy / Seed Germination and the Environment / Distribution of Seeds in Soil Profile / Soil Environment / Impact of Soil Tillage / Reproduction of the Weed Seed Population / Shifts in Weed Populations / Ecology and Weed Control

3. Methods of Weed Control
Preventive Weed Control / Cultural Weed Control / Mechanical (Physical) Weed Control / Biological Weed Control / Chemical Weed Control / Herbicide Regulation

4. Conservation Tillage Systems
Weeds / Weed Control / Conservation Tillage Terminology

5. Herbicides and the Soil
The Fate of Herbicides in Soils / Chemical Processes / Physical Processes / Microbial Decomposition of Herbicides / Microbial Populations / Herbicide Persistence and Residues in Soils

6. Entry and Movement of Herbicides in Plants
Soil-Applied Herbicides / Foliar-Applied Herbicides / Translocation: The Movement of Herbicides in Plants

7. Modes and Sites of Action of Herbicides
Modes and Sites of Action

8. Herbicide–Plant Selectivity
Physical Factors of Selectivity / Biological Factors of Selectivity / Inherent Properties of Herbicides / Chemical Plant-Protectants / Chemical Herbicide-Protectants / Herbicide–Agrochemical Interactions / Herbicide-Resistant Weed Biotypes

9. Weed Resistance and Transgenic Crop Tolerance
Weed Resistance / Plant Responses / Transgenic Crop Tolerance / Expanding Commercial Uses

10. Formulations and Surfactants
Formulations / Mixtures of Pesticide Formulations / Surfactants (Spray Adjuvants)

11. Sprayer Calibration and Herbicide Calculations
Sprayer Calibration / Calibration Procedures / Ground Speed Determination / Herbicide Calculations / Acid Equivalents of Salts and Esters / Parts per Million

Section II. HERBICIDE FAMILIES

12. Acid Amide Herbicides

13. Aryloxyphenoxypropionate Herbicides

14. Benzonitrile Herbicides

15. Bipyridinium Herbicides

16. Cyclohexanedione Herbicides

17. Dinitroaniline Herbicides

18. Diphenyl Ether Herbicides

19. Growth Regulator–Type Herbicides

20. Imidazolinone Herbicides

21. Methanearsonate Herbicides

22. Phenylcarbamate Herbicides

23. Phenyl Pyridazinone Herbicides

24. Phthalic Acid Herbicides

25. Sulfonylurea Herbicides

26. Thiocarbamate Herbicides

27. Triazine Herbicides

28. Uracil Herbicides

29. Urea Herbicides

30. Nonfamily Herbicides
Amitrole / Asulam / Bensulide / Bentazon / Clomazone / Diethatyl / Difenzoquat / Dithiopyr / Ethofumesate / Fluridone / Glyphosate and Sulfosate / Isoxaben / Pyridate / Inorganic Herbicides

Section III. WEED CONTROL IN CROPLANDS

31. Weed Control in Selected Crops: An Introduction
Weed and Weed-Control Literature / Keeping up to Date / Use of Trade Names / Weed-Control Practices / Herbicides

32. Field Corn
Chemical Weed Control

33. Cotton
Weeds / Crop Management / Tillage / Conservation Tillage / Herbicides

34. Peanuts
Weeds / Weed Control

35. Rice

36. Grain Sorghum
Weeds / Weed Control

37. Soybeans
Crop Rotations / Weed Control

38. Sugar Beets
Weeds / Weed Control

39. Wheat
Weeds / Weed Control / Regional Weeds and Weed Control

40. Lettuce

41. Onions

42. Potatoes
Weeds / Weed Control

43. Sweet Corn

44. Tomatoes

45. Turfgrass
Weeds / Weed Control / Herbicides

46. Pastures and Rangelands
Poisonous Plants / Chemical Weed Control / Broom Snakeweed / Common Goldenweed / Larkspurs / Leafy Spurge / Locoweeds / Mesquite / Sagebrush / Yaupon / Winter Forbs