Manipulation of Allelopathic Crops for Weed Control

Abstract

This book straightforwardly defines the ways of exploiting the allelopathic potential of important field crops for controlling weeds, either in the same crops or other ones. This means that the crops normally grown are exploited for their allelopathic activity to suppress weeds naturally under field conditions. The book highlights the allelopathic potential of several important cereals (wheat, maize, rice, barley, sorghum, rye) and two oilseed crops [sunflower and canola (as well as some other members of Brassicaceae family)]. Further, the book explains how the allelopathic potential of these crops can be manipulated under field conditions to suppress weeds, for example, by growing allelopathic crop cultivars, using mulches from allelopathic crops, intercropping an allelopathic crop with a non-allelopathic crop, including allelopathic crops in crop rotation, and using these as cover crops.