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Hypothetical Soil-Culture System Sub-Models

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This chapter describes how conceptual sub-models for soil and soil-sand-culture bioassays in conjunction with quantitative relationships described in the previous chapters and the literature may be used to model how various system elements of soil and soil-sand cultures can potentially modify or control the actions and effects of simple phenolic acids on cucumber seedlings.

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Blum, U. (2019). Hypothetical Soil-Culture System Sub-Models. In: Plant-Plant Allelopathic Interactions III. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22098-3_9

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