Allelopathy: Implications in Natural and Managed Ecosystems

摘要: Plants, whither wild or cultivated, interact with each other and organisms (micro- macro-organisms) in several ways. These interactions are based on the chemical release from plants studied as “allelopathy” under domain of ecology. The often result a resource-driven dominance certain plant species over others. Under natural ecosystems, such generally regarded causative factors for modifying distribution flora while managed agro-ecosystems, interactive capabilities can be exploited bringing potential improvements production crops sustainable way. Since agriculture mainly relies appropriate agricultural practices input diverse synthetic chemicals attaining high yields crops, concurrently they have also resulted considerable ecological environmental problems. To address issues sustainability agriculture, approaches strongly encouraged. Allelopathy may provide an effective mechanism to control weeds pest contribute soil fertility. This would lead reduced application fertilizers pesticides, thus ensuring durable agriculture. In this chapter we present brief review about allelopathy, underlying mechanisms its roles ecosystems.