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JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY AND CROP SCIENCE
Volume 193, Issue 1, Pages 37-44Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-037X.2006.00243.x
Keywords
activated charcoal; growth inhibition; nitrogen fertilization; phenolics; root exudates; root residues
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A study was conducted to determine the potential and nature of root-mediated allelopathic interference of Chenopodium murale on wheat. Early growth of wheat reduced significantly in agar medium where C. murale seedlings were previously growing as well as in rhizosphere soil of C. murale. The reduction in wheat growth was due to the presence of inhibitory metabolites released by roots of C. murale in the growth media. Even the soil incorporation of root residues also reduced the wheat growth in terms of seedling length and seedling dry weight. Only a partial amelioration in growth inhibition occurred upon charcoal supplementation or nitrogen fertilization in these amended soils. Root residues did not reduce the available nutrients in the soil, which was rather nutrient rich. These results indicated the definite role of allelopathy of C. murale roots in retarding wheat growth. Root amended soils contained significantly higher amount of phytotoxic phenolics as the putative allelochemicals, which were ferulic acid, vanillic acid, p-coumaric acid and benzoic acid. The study concluded that C. murale roots and their exudates exerted allelopathic effects on wheat by releasing water-soluble phenolic acids as putative allelochemicals in soil.
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