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‘The environmental conditions of a plant comprise physical growth factors and the neighbouring plants interfering with that plant. Interference is usually competition for the same growth requisites, like water, light and mineral nutrients. These are present in a limited supply. The competition between plants for the limited resources result in an uneven sharing of these resources’ (Spitters, 1979, p. 1). The competition is stronger as the plant density is higher or as, at a given plant density, the amount of resources is reduced.
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© 1995 Izak Bos and Peter Caligari
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Bos, I., Caligari, P. (1995). The detrimental effects of allocompetition on the efficiency of selection. In: Selection Methods in Plant Breeding. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8432-6_15
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