{"id":3542,"date":"2017-07-05T08:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences-new\/?post_type=person&#038;p=3542"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:23:56","slug":"rleon","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/people\/rleon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramon Leon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My research focuses on describing how agricultural management affects weed behavior at the community, population, and species levels with the ultimate goal to use weed biology and ecology information to design and implement weed management strategies that promote crop health and production\u00a0profitability while minimizing negative environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<div><b>Recent Publications:<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Leon RG, Wright DL (2018) Recurrent changes of weed seed bank density and diversity in crop\u00ad\u2013livestock systems.\u00a0Agronomy Journal\u00a0In press<\/p>\n<p>Leon RG, van der Laat R (2018) Herbicidal and seed dormancy induction activity of fermentation residual vinasse.\u00a0Weed Science\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/wsc.2017.84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doi.org\/10.1017\/wsc.2017.84<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bravo W,\u00a0Leon RG, Ferrell JA, Mulvaney MJ, Wood CW (2018) Evolutionary adaptations of Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) to nitrogen fertilization and crop rotation history affect morphology and nutrient use efficiency.\u00a0Weed Science\u00a066:180-189<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weedbio.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/files\/2018\/03\/LeonCV.pdf\">View Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weedbio.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/publications\/\">View Publications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2387,"featured_media":40131,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[522,529],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3542","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-faculty","group-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/3542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/3542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40132,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/3542\/revisions\/40132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}