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 conditions 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.
