What is it about?
Allelopathy is the biosynthesis and discharge of biocompounds by one plant that incommode the growth of other plants. This name comes from the Greek language allelon, understanding mutual, and pathos, understanding to endure, and refers to the negative effect of one organism on another. This manifestation is generous second-hand in agroecological crops to reject, inhibit, or stimulate the growth of other plants.
Featured Image
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Why is it important?
Manipulated in the growth of plants this phenomenon of allelopathy, can reduce the use of synthetic chemical compounds, and sometimes these toxic synthetic biocompounds can be abandoned. Natural plant products or Signaling Chemicals in Plants possess justificatory benefits, such as chemical diversity and miscellaneous ways of action, which can promote to the administration or prevention of resistant pests, shorter half-life compared to synthetic chemicals or herbicides, and biodegradability.
Perspectives
Allelopathy represents the natural or induced property of cultivated plants to secrete certain Signaling Chemicals in Plants called “choline” that create a “rhizospheric chemical environment,” with a phytotoxic inhibitory effect (at high concentrations) on the receptor weeds.
habilitated doctor, chemist Monica BUTNARIU
University of Life Sciences "King Mihai I" from Timisoara
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Allelopathy Induction in Crops by Natural Selection, April 2025, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1201/9781003592815-4.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
