Chemical Ecology of Plants: Allelopathy in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Problems and prospects in the study of plant allelochemicals: a brief introduction.- Antifungal properties of cyanobacteria and algae: ecological and agricultural implications.- The chemistry and chemical ecology of biologically active cyanobacterial metabolites.- Compounds from Typha domingensis P..- Allelochemicals from sunflowers: chemistry, bioactivity and applications.- Feedback mechanism in the chemical ecology of plants: role of soil microorganisms.- Do allelochemicals operate independent of substratum factors?.- Ecological relevance of allelopathy: some considerations related to Mediterranean, subtropical, temperate, and boreal forest shrubs.- Linking ecosystem disturbance with changes in keystone species, humus properties and soil chemical ecology: implications for conifer regeneration with ericaceous understory.- Black walnut allelopathy: current state of the science.- Allelopathy and agroecology.- Allelochemicals phytotoxicity in explaining weed invasiveness and their function as herbicide analogues.- Shift in allelochemical functioning with selected abiotic stress factors.- Pitfalls in interpretation of allelochemical data in ecological studies: implications for plant-herbivore and allelopathic research.- Biochemical and physiological aspects of pollen allelopathy.