SpringerBriefs in Plant Science Manipulation of Allelopathic Crops for Weed Control - Khawar Jabran Kartoniert (TB)

This book clearly defines ways to maximize the allelopathic potential of important field crops for controlling weeds either in the same crop or others. Compared to the use of herbicides allelopathy is an attractive option to control weeds naturally under field conditions. The book highlights the allelopathic potential of several important cereals (wheat maize rice barley sorghum rye) and two oilseed crops [sunflower and canola (as well as some other member of Brassicaceae family)]. Further the book explains how the allelopathic potential of these crops can be manipulated under field co nditions to suppress weeds. This is possible by growing allelopathic crop cultivars using mulches from allelopathic crops intercropping an allelopathic crop with a non-allelopathic crop including allelopathic crops in crop rotation or using allelopathic crops as cover crops. Equipped with several basic concepts of allelopathy this book will be highly useful for the farming community as well as students and researchers.