Department Head, Professor of Weed Science
Office: Ag C 50
Email: AKniss@uwyo.edu
Phone: (307) 766-3949
Research
The main objective of my research is to develop sustainable weed management programs, especially in agronomic crops like sugarbeet, winter wheat, corn, and dry beans. My research program is relatively diverse in scope, but most of my research program fits within the following themes:
- non-target impacts of weed management
- herbicide physiology
- weed seedbank ecology
- weed management in sugarbeet
- new herbicide uses
- herbicide resistant crops

Teaching
- PLNT 3030 - Ecology of Plant Protection
- PLNT 4070/5070 - Weed Science & Technology
- PLNT 5080 - Applied Statistical Programming for the Plant Sciences
Selected Publications
Ballenger JG, Adjesiwor AT, Claypool DA, Kniss AR (2024) . Weed Science.
Adamson DM, Sbatella GM, Dayan F, Kniss AR (2024) . Weed Technology.
Yadav R, Jha P, Kniss AR, Lawrence NC, Sbatella GM (2023) Weed Science.
Saleh OS, Kniss AR (2022) . Canadian Journal of Plant Science.
Kniss AR, Adjesiwor AT, Lawrence NC, Mosqueda EM (2022) . Advances in Weed Science. (Invited paper)
Adjesiwor AT, Ballenger J, Weinig C, Ewers BE, Kniss AR (2021) Plant, Cell & Environment.
Carabajal-Capitan, S, Kniss AR, Jabbour R (2021) Environmental Entomology.
Adjesiwor AT, Kniss AR (2020) Agronomy.
Mosqueda EM, Sbatella GM, Jha P, Lawrence NL, Kniss AR (2020) Weed Science.
Adjesiwor AT, Claypool DA, Kniss AR (2020) Weed Technology.
Sbatella GM, Adjesiwor A, Kniss AR, Stahlman P, Geier P, Westra P, Wilson R, Moechnig M, Cole R, and Tichota J. (2019) Weed Technology.
Schambow T, Adjesiwor A, Lorent L, Kniss AR (2019) Weed Science.
Soltani N, Dille JA, Robinson DE, Sprague CL, Morishita DW, Lawrence NC, Kniss AR, Jha P, Felix J, Nurse RE, Sikkema PH (2018) Weed Technology.
Kniss AR (2018) Weed Technology.
Mallory-Smith C, Kniss AR, Lyon D, Zemetra RS (2018) Weed Science.
Soltani N, Dille JA, Gulden RH, Sprague CL, Zollinger RK, Morishita D, Lawrence NC, Sbatella GM, Kniss AR, Jha P, Sikkema PH (2018) Weed Technology.
Coburn CW, Adjesiwor AA, Kniss AR (2018) HortTechnology.
Dille JA, Stahlman PW, Du J, Geier PW, Riffel JD, Currie RS, Wilson RG, Sbatella GM, Westra P, Kniss AR, Moechnig MJ, Cole RM (2017) Weed Science.
Kniss AR (2017) Weed Science.
Kniss AR (2017) . Nature Communications.
Gaines TA, Barker AL, Patterson EL, Westra P, Westra EP, Wilson RG, Jha P, Kumar V, Kniss AR (2016) . PLoS ONE
Kniss AR, Savage SD, Jabbour R (2016) Commercial Crop Yields Reveal Strengths and Weaknesses for Organic Agriculture in the United States. PLOS ONE. ( | )
Greet BJ, Mealor BA, Kniss AR (2016) . Rangeland Ecology & Management.
Sbatella GM, Kniss AR, Omondi EC, Wilson RG (2016) . Weed Technology.
Douglass CH, Nissen SJ, Meiman PJ, Kniss AR (2016) . Rangeland Ecology & Management.
Kniss AR and Coburn CW (2015) . PLoS ONE.
Lee B, Ritten J, Bastian C, Kniss AR (2015) Profitability of glyphosate-resistant sugarbeet production in whole farm systems. Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.
Douglass CH, Nissen SJ, Brunk G Kniss AR (2015) . Pest Management Science.
Ritz C, Kniss AR, Streibig JC (2015) . Weed Science.
Hergert H, Mealor BA, Kniss AR (2015). Ecological Restoration.
Omondi EC and Kniss AR (2014) . PLOS ONE.
Lee B, Ritten J, Kniss AR Bastian C (2014) . Journal of Sugar Beet Research.
Reddy KJ, Whitman AJ, Kniss AR (2014) . Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.
Kniss AR and Odero DC (2013) Weed Technology.
Kniss AR, Sbatella GM Wilson RG (2012) Weed Technology.
Kniss AR, Vassios JD, Nissen SJ Ritz C (2011) Weed Science.
Kniss AR, Lyon DJ, Vassios JD Nissen SJ (2011) Weed Technology.
Odero DC, Mesbah AO, Miller SD Kniss AR (2011) Weed Science.
Kniss AR and Lyon DJ (2011) Weed Technology.
Kniss AR (2010) Journal of Sugar Beet Research.
Odero DC, Mesbah A, Miller SD Kniss AR 2010. Weed Technology.
Lyon DJ and Kniss AR (2010) Weed Technology.
Odero DC, Mesbah AO, Miller SD Kniss AR (2010) Weed Technology.
Odero DC, Mesbah AO, Miller SD Kniss AR (2009) Weed Technology.
Enloe SF and Kniss AR (2009) Invasive Plant Science and Management.
Enloe SF, Kniss AR, Ferrell M LaFantasie J (2009) Invasive Plant Science and Management.
Enloe SF and Kniss AR (2009) Weed Technology. Weed Technology.
Kniss AR, Lyon DJ Miller SD (2008) . Crop Science. (Raw data)
Kniss AR, Miller SD, Westra P Wilson RG (2007) Weed Science.
Wilson RG, Miller SD, Westra PH, Kniss AR, Stahlman PW, Wicks GW Kachman SD (2007) Weed Technology.
Lyon DJ, Kniss AR Miller SD (2007) Weed Technology.
Larson RL, Hill AL, Fenwick A, Kniss AR, Hanson LE Miller SD (2006) Pest Management Science.
Kniss AR, Wilson RG, Martin AR, Burgener PA Feuz DM (2004) Weed Technology.
