Reddit reviews Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard or Farmer's Market, with 88 Recipes: A Cookbook

There are promising bio-control agents being tested in NJ, with expected first release 2019 or 2020. We've had success treating by cutting to just above the lowest leaf and spraying that leaf, though I don't remember the chemicals or concentrations we used. Additionally, I just went to a conference where a Japanese woman was speaking about how her family eradicated about 1 acre in 5ish years by manually removing the seed source and actually using the plant as a vegetable without disturbing the rhizome. Apparently it is seen as a delicious veggie in Japan and she collects a lot of invasive plants and sells them to restaurants in NYC and Philly. She said it can be substituted for anything with rhubarb.

Edit: This is the woman who I am speaking about https://www.amazon.com/Foraged-Flavor-Fabulous-Ingredients-Backyard/dp/030795661X