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The Effects of Quackgrass on Germination and Seedling Development of Certain Crop Plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Thor Kommedahl ,
J. B. Kotheimer  and
J. V. Bernardini
Thor Kommedahl
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Pathology and Botany, Institute of Agriculture, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota
J. B. Kotheimer
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Pathology and Botany, Institute of Agriculture, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota
J. V. Bernardini
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Pathology and Botany, Institute of Agriculture, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Most of the evidence for the production of toxic substances, by one plant, that affect the growth and survival of another, is circumstantial, according to a review by Bonner (5). There is direct evidence that the leaves of Artemisia absinthium L. (3), Encelia farinosa A. Gray (6), and Thamnosma montana Torr. & Frem. (2), produce substances which are toxic to other plants. A substance has been isolated from the roots of guayule which is toxic to guayule but which is unimportant agriculturally because this substance remains only a short time in the soil (4). Also dead brome grass roots have been found to be toxic to brome seedlings (1); however the evidence here is indirect (5). Le Tourneau et al. (13) have shown also that water extracts from tissues of many crops and weeds inhibit germination of wheat.

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Weeds , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1959 , pp. 1 - 12
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Copyright © 1959 Weed Science Society of America 

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