Recent advances in allelopathy (Vol. 1)

Abstract

The discovery of new allelochemicals from plants and microbes has attracted our attention in the last 20 years due to their ecological implications as biocommunicators in nature and to their potential use as a source of new structural types of agrochemicals. Recent Advances in Aiieiopathyis a new triennial scientific series which has been born with the aim of collecting whatever can be considered relevant in the field of Allelopathy research within a period of three years, considering every aspect of this multidisciplinary science. This first volume A Science for the Future presents a selected number of chapters in which internationally renowned experts discuss how a better understanding of allelochemical phenomena can lead to natural applications. Ifwe know the way thatplants madepossible theirinter- andintraspecific relationship within a specific ecosystem, we can mimic certain processes and think in applications as natural herbicides, antibiotics, fungicides, natural insecticides, etc. This book is divided into four sections: I) Methodology and Techniques in Allelopathic Studies. II) Chemistry, Physiology and MechanismofAllelopathic Processes. Ill) Allelopathic Interactions in Nature. IV) Allelopathy in Weed and Plant Disease Control. It presents an overview of the different fields involved in Allelopathy in an integrated way. We hope that this book will help, both those people that read for the first time about Allelopathy and those that have been working for a hard long time in the research and development of Allelopathy, get enthusiastic about Allelopathy.