Verticillium wilt (caused by Verticillium dahliae), a soilborne disease, often causes significant reductions of yield in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) production where crop rotation is limited. Rootstock replacement through grafting is considered an effective method to control this disease. This 2-year study investigated the eggplant yield, resistance to verticillium wilt, and allelochemicals...

BACKGROUND Plant allelochemicals released into the soil can significantly impact the performance of associated plant species thereby affecting their competitive ability. Soil microbes can potentially affect the interaction between plant and plant chemicals by degrading the allelochemicals. However, most often plant-plant chemical interactions are studied using filter paper bioassays examining t...

Myriophyllum spicatum L. (or milfoil for short) is a highly competitive submersed macrophyte which can replace other submersed macrophytes and form monospecific stands. Frequently, epiphyte cover and phytoplankton development is low in M. spicatum dominated systems. Milfoil shoots grow fast and tall and tend to form canopies at the water surface depriving underlying photosynthetic organisms of ...

Rhododendron formosanum is distributed widely in the central mountains in Taiwan and the major allelopathic compound in the leaves has been identified as (-)-catechin, which is also a major allelochemical of an invasive spotted knapweed in North America. Soil microorganisms play key roles in ecosystems and influence various important processes, including allelopathy. However, no microorganism h...

The term plankton refers to the freely floating and weakly swimming organisms within aquatic environment. The plant species commonly known as phytoplankton are unicellular and microscopic in size. Phytoplankton have a significant utility in marine life and they play a vital role at the base of the marine food chain. They also control the global carbon cycle which has a significant impact on the...

Benzoxazinoids have been described as important allelochemicals from Gramineae as well as Acanthaceae, Rannunculaceae, and Scrophulariaceae plants. Several bioactivities have been described and evaluated for these compounds, including fungistatic, antifeedant, and phytotoxic. In ongoing studies about allelochemicals as natural herbicide models, the description of soil dynamics in phytotoxic age...

Less known infos like the effect of wounding faba bean roots by high temperature, how maize climb up slopes, cold on Medicago spp., drought soybeans, active microbe species diversity in rhizosphere-plant interface complex interactions roots, allelochemicals, axial water flow, gravitropism, fine and coarse salt-responsive mechanisms, transport root cells, phototropism, hormones, nutrient acquasi...