Biological Control and Management of Parthenium Weed

Convenors

Lorraine Strathie, strathiel@arc.agric.za

Wondi Mersie, wmersie@vsu.edu

Rangaswamy Muniappan, ipm-dir@vt.edu or rmuni@vt.edu

Aim

The general aim of this working group is to promote the use of sustainable, environmentally safe, economically feasible, and socially acceptable control methods, including biological control, of Parthenium hysterophorus L. (Asteraceae) in the invasive plant’s introduced range (Africa, Asia, and Australia).