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Allelopathy in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry

Allelopathy in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry

Zeng, Ren Sen
Mallik, Azim U.
Luo, Shiming

Hardcover

Botany & HorticultureEnvironmental StudiesLawns, Trees, & Shrubs

ISBN10: 0387773363
ISBN13: 9780387773360
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 3 2008
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Simply put, allelopathy refers to an ecological phenomenon of plant-plant interference through release of organic chemicals (allelochemicals) in the environment. These chemicals can be directly and continuously released by the donor plants in their immediate environment as volatiles in the air or root exudates in soil or they can be the microbial degradation products of plant residues. The chemicals may interfere with survival and growth of neighboring or succeeding plants. Black walnut, eucalyptus, sunflower, sorghum, sesame and alfalfa are common examples of plants with allelopathic property as well as some staple crops such as rice, wheat, barley and sorghum. Plants can emit chemicals that also discourage insects and pathogens. To maintain sustained productivity, knowledge of this form of plant interference on other plants and on disease causing organisms has been used in agriculture since prehistoric time by manipulating cropping pattern and sequence such as mixed cropping and crop rotation. However, use of numerous agrochemicals including a wide range of herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers and genetically modified high yielding crops has become the characteristic feature of modern industrial agriculture. Not only the sustainability of crop yield is called into question in this form of agriculture, the extensive long-term and often irreversible environmental degradation including ground water contamination and food safety associated with industrial agriculture are now of serious concern worldwide.

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