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Considering the large tropical wet region and a rich flora, the amount of work done with respect to allelopathic interaction among Brazilian plant species seems negligible. Reports on the allelopathic effect of Mangifera indica and Cyperus rotundus on seed germination and early seedling growth of various crop plants and microorganisms are among some of the pioneer work done in this direction (Teles, 1968; Meguro, 1969a, Meguro, 1969b; Meguro and Bonomi, 1969). This was followed by evaluation of a number of plant species for their allelopathic potential. Crude extracts of Solanum chloranthum (Moraes and Vicente, 1970), Andira humilis, A. anthelmia, A. vermifuga, A. fraxinifolia (Rizzini, 1971), Calea cuneifolia (Coutinho and Hashimoto, 1971), Wedelia paludosa, Anacardium occidentalis (Barbosa, 1972), Solanum paniculatum, Artemisia absinthicum, Achryrocline alata, Athaeae rosea (Dionello-Basta and Basta, 1984), Sorghum halepense (Castro et al., 1984), Brassica napus (Vilhordo et al., 1985; Burin and Vilhordo, 1986), Phytolacca thyrsyflora (Nagao et al., 1986), Beta vulgaris, Sorghum bicolor and Ilex domestica (Santos et al., 1987) have been found to be allelopathic to several crop plants. However, isolation and characterization of allelochemicals from these species is yet to gain a momentum in Brazil and also in other Latin American countries.
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Ferreira, A.G., Aquila, M.E.A., Jacobi, U.S., Rizvi, V. (1992). Allelopathy in Brazil. In: Rizvi, S.J.H., Rizvi, V. (eds) Allelopathy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2376-1_15
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