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024	7		_a10.1007/978-1-4020-4093-1 _2doi
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100	1		_aWillis, R. J. _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe History of Allelopathy _h[electronic resource] / _cby R. J. Willis.
264		1	_aDordrecht : _bSpringer Netherlands, _c2007.
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336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0		_aWhat is Allelopathy? -- Allelopathy in the Classical World - Greece and Rome -- Arabic Works -- Ancient India, China and Japan -- Mediaeval Period and Renaissance -- The Eighteenth Century - Root Excretion -- Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and His Era -- The Decline of Allelopathy in the Latter Nineteenth Century -- Spencer Pickering, and The Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, 1894-1921 -- The USDA Bureau of Soils and Its Influence -- Approaching the Modern Era.
520			_aAllelopathy is the study of the chemical interactions of plants. This concept has been known since antiquity, and first appears unambiguously in written form in about 350 B.C. in the works of Theophrastus. This book provides a detailed account of the concept of allelopathy as it has occured through the course of botanical literature from the earliest recorded writings to the modern era. In the ancient world, the negative and positive interaction of plants was expressed within the framework of antipathy and sympathy of things. As such, antipathy and sympathy were more widely understood than generally appreciated, and indeed were assimilated in aspects of culture outside of botany and agriculture. This book firstly addresses the question of what is allelopathy, as allelopathy is one of these unfortunate terms in ecology that has no unified definition. The book then examines the major episodes in the history of allelopathy: the writings from classical Greece and Rome; mediaeval Arabic, Indian and Chinese work; the advent of printing and promulgation of information in the 16th and 17th centuries; the 18th century and the theory of root excretion; the 19th century and the influence of A.P. de Candolle; the early 20th century and the work of Pickering and the USDA Bureau of Soils; and the years leading to the current era. The work draws extensively on original sources, and consequently many of the assertions published in relation to the background of allelopathy, are shown to be incorrect, or at best very inadequate. There is a great deal of information presented, in a consolidated or accessible form, for the first time. The book endeavours to set the history of allelopathy within both a scientific and sociological context.
650		0	_aLIFE SCIENCES.
650		0	_aAGRICULTURE.
650		0	_aPLANT ECOLOGY.
650		0	_aBOTANY.
650	1	4	_aLIFE SCIENCES.
650	2	4	_aLIFE SCIENCES, GENERAL.
650	2	4	_aPLANT SCIENCES.
650	2	4	_aPLANT ECOLOGY.
650	2	4	_aAGRICULTURE.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9781402040924
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4093-1 _zVer el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY
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