“…Looking at the weed species found in cotton by family, the Poaceae family ranked first with 7 species, followed by the Asteraceae with 6 species, the Euphorbiaceae and the Amaranthaceae family with 5 species (Figure 1). Similar to our study, in studies conducted in cotton growing areas in Türkiye, most of the weed species found in cotton were found to belong to the Poaceae family (Uludağ and Katkat, 1991;Boz et al, 1995;Arslan, 2012;Arslan, 2021;Özaslan and Bükün, 2013;Özkil , 2019;Kaya and Nemli, 2002;Pala and Mennan, 2019;Şahin et al, 2020;Tursun et al, 2004). It was found that most of the species identified during surveys in cotton growing areas in Ethiopia, China, Kenya and Greece in the world belonged to the Poaceae family (Kimunye, 2011;Tena, 2012;WeiHua et al, 2014;Taye, 2019 andIssayev, 2023).…”