InhaltsangabeWhat 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.

Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Foreword.- 1. What is Allelopathy?.- 2. Allelopathy in the Classical World - Greece and Rome.- 3. Arabic Works.- 4. Ancient India, China and Japan.- 5. Mediaeval Period and Renaissance.- 6. The Eighteenth Century - Root Excretion.- 7. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and His Era.- 8. The Decline of Allelopathy in the Latter Nineteenth Century.- 9. Spencer Pickering, and The Woburn Experimental Fruit, 1894-1921.- 10. The USDA Bureau of Soils and Its Influence.- 11. Approaching the Modern Era.- Index.