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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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L. Tom Barber

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Professor

Faculty Researcher

17 h-index 64 pubs 1,230 cited

  • Herbicides
  • Echinochloa
  • COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Herbicide Resistance
  • Humans
  • Oryza
  • Dicamba
  • Plant Weeds
  • Crops, Agricultural
  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Monitoring
  • Wastewater
  • Pesticides
  • Butanes
  • Nitriles

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

L. Tom Barber's research focuses on weed science, particularly herbicide resistance in agricultural settings. He has investigated mechanisms of resistance in Palmer amaranth and barnyardgrass to herbicides such as glufosinate and florpyrauxifen-benzyl. Barber has also examined the implications of herbicide spray drift on pollinator foraging sources and studied weed management costs and practices in Arkansas rice production. His work also extends to the application of wastewater sequencing for monitoring infectious diseases, including SARS-CoV-2 variants in elementary schools and the broader community.

Barber collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Jason K. Norsworthy, Trenton L. Roberts, Amar S. Godar, and Edward E. Gbur. He has authored 64 publications, with an h-index of 17 and over 1,230 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 17
  • Publications: 64
  • Citations: 1,230

Selected Publications

  • Farmer and consultant perspectives on weed management practices and problematic weed species in midsouthern USA soybean (2026)
    Weed Technology DOI OpenAlex
  • Soybean plant-back following an amicarbazone and metribuzin application for corn (2026)
    Weed Technology DOI OpenAlex
  • Using targeted spray applications to mitigate herbicide use in corn (2026)
    Weed Technology DOI OpenAlex
  • Full-season herbicide programs to control a seven-way-resistant Palmer amaranth accession under soybean technologies (2025)
    Weed Technology DOI OpenAlex
  • Distribution of glufosinate resistance and glutamine synthetase copy number variation among Palmer amaranth (<i>Amaranthus palmeri</i>) accessions in northeast Arkansas (2025)
    Weed Science DOI OpenAlex
  • Resistance profile of glufosinate-resistant Palmer amaranth accessions and herbicide options (2025)
    Weed Technology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Comparison of a diflufenican-containing premixture to current commercial standards for residual Palmer amaranth (<i>Amaranthus palmeri</i>) and waterhemp (<i>Amaranthus tuberculatus</i>) control (2024)
    Weed Technology DOI OpenAlex
  • Performance of a diflufenican-containing premixture in dicamba-resistant soybean systems (2024)
    Weed Technology DOI OpenAlex
  • Influence of application timing and cultivar on soybean tolerance and weed control from diflufenican or a diflufenican-containing premixture (2024)
    Weed Technology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Metabolic Exploration for Cyhalofop-Butyl Antagonism in Barnyardgrass [<i>Echinochloa crus-galli</i> (L.) P. Beauv.] Following Pretreatment of Malathion (2023)
    Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Exploratory Analysis on Herbicide Metabolism and Very-Long-Chain Fatty Acid Production in Metolachlor-Resistant Palmer Amaranth (<i>Amaranthus palmeri</i> S. Wats.) (2023)
    Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Metabolism of 2,4-D in resistant Amaranthus palmeri S. Wats. (Palmer amaranth) (2022)
    Crop Protection 11 citations DOI OpenAlex

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