Allelopathy in sustainable agriculture and forestry

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 exudatesin 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 staplecrops such as rice, wheat, barley and sorghum. Plants can emit chemicals thatalso 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. Only comprehensive and up-to-date reference on the science, mechanism, methodology, and application allelopathy Publication idea sprung from an international conference on allelopathy and the theme expanded to be broad-based and inclusive of global perspective and participation INDICE: From the contents Allelopathy Research and Application in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry.- Allelopathy: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities.- Allelopathy in Chinese Modern and Ancient Agriculture.- Allelochemicalsin Plants.- Allelopathy: Full Circle from Phytotoxicity to Mechanisms of Resistance.- Mechanisms and Experimental Methodology.- Indirect Effects of Phenolics on Plant Performance by Altering Nitrogen Cycling: Another Example of Plant-Plant Negative Interactions.- Genomic Approaches to Understanding Allelochemical Effects on Plants.- Allelopathy from a Mathematical Modeling Perspective.-Progress and Prospect of Rice Allelopathy Research.- Rice Allelopathy Research in China.- Recent Advances in Wheat Allelopathy.- Sorgam allelopathy for weed management in wheat.- Allelochemicals in Pre-cowing Soils of Continuous Soybean Cropping and their Autointoxication.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-77336-0
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 380
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés