Abstract
Inhibitory effects of crop plants on other crop plants were observed over 2000 years ago, but no scientific studies were done on the subject until early in the twentieth century. Shreiner and his associates published a series of papers starting in 1909 in which they presented evidence that some soils will cease to provide the life support of a continuous single cropping system due to an addition of growth inhibitors released into the soil by certain crop plants (Rice, 1984). This was the early beginnings of allelopathy and autotoxicity.
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Miller, D.A. (1992). Allelopathy in alfalfa and other forage crops in the United States. In: Rizvi, S.J.H., Rizvi, V. (eds) Allelopathy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2376-1_12
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