The History of Allelopathy

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Willis, R. J. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Ecology.

Allelopathy is the study of the chemical interactions of plants. This concept has been known since antiquity, and first appears unambiguously in written form in about 350 B.C. in the works of Theophrastus. This book provides a detailed account of the concept of allelopathy as it has occured through...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• What is Allelopathy?
• Allelopathy in the Classical World – Greece and Rome
• Arabic Works
• Ancient India, China and Japan
• Mediaeval Period and Renaissance
• The Eighteenth Century – Root Excretion
• Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and His Era
• The Decline of Allelopathy in the Latter Nineteenth Century
• Spencer Pickering, and The Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, 1894-1921
• The USDA Bureau of Soils and Its Influence
• Approaching the Modern Era.