No evidence for root-mediated allelopathy in Centaurea solstitialis, a species in a commonly allelopathic genus

Biological Invasions

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 897-907

  Qin, Bo ^a   Lau, Jennifer A ^b   Kopshever, Joseph ^b   Callaway, Ragan M ^c   McGray, Heather ^b,d   Perry, Laura G ^a   Weir, Tiffany L ^a   Paschke, Mark W ^a   Hierro, Jose L ^c   Yoder, John ^d   Vivanco, Jorge M ^a   Strauss, Sharon ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Allelopathy; Centaurea; Competition; Exudates; Invasion

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; ANGIOSPERM; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RESPONSE; INHIBITOR; ROOT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS; TRIPHYSARIA VERSICOLOR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 35448938844     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-007-9089-x     Document Type: Article

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