Journal of Plant Sciences

Special Issue

Use of Allelopathy in Agriculture: New Futures, Challenges and Future Prospects

  • Submission Deadline: 31 January 2021
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Oueslati Oussama
About This Special Issue
Several studies have reported the allelopathic depressive effect of crop residues on yields (grains, straw) of a crop in succession. This effect is more amplified with the practice of conservation agriculture (such direct sowing), because of the accumulation of residues on the soil. Many crops expressed proven allelopathic properties such as barley, bread-wheat, durum-wheat, oats, grain-sorghum and rye.
Allelopathy interacts with various environmental stresses, such as high temperatures, irradiation, nutrient limitation and pest attack, which increase the production of allelochemicals as a defense mechanism. Production of allelochemicals at high rates induces resistances in crops against abiotic stresses, helping them to grow vigorously. A large number of compounds have been identified as having a role in allelopathic activity in higher plants in general and in crops in particular. Among these compounds are alkaloïds (hordenin, gramin), phenolic acids, hydroxamic acid, jasmonic acid, benzoxazinone and L-tryptophan.
The study of the allelopathic potential of cultivated species in an agricultural system allows a more oriented choice of agronomic sequences and offers the possibility of using allelochemical substances as "natural pesticides" in the control of weeds and pests of crops. Such an approach could overcome the extensive use of chemicals behind environmental pollution and resistance developed by certain pests.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Allelopathic interactions and their mechanisms in crop production
  2. Allelopathy and pest management (weed, insect, diseases…)
  3. Chemical characterization of allelopathic interactions
  4. Allelopathy and a-biotic stresses
  5. Importance of breeding allelopathic crops
  6. Importance of global changes on allelopathy
Lead Guest Editor
  • Oueslati Oussama

    Department of Agronomy and Rural Economy, Higher School of Agriculture of Kef, Kef, Tunisia

Guest Editors
  • Kremer Robert J.

    School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States

  • Run Meng

    College of bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

  • El-Shora Hamed M.

    Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

  • Souissi Thouraya

    National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia

  • Vladimirovna Roshchina Victoria

    Laboratory of Microspectral Analysis of Cells and Cellular Systems, Institute of Cell Biophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russian Federation

Published Articles
  • Allelopathy of Sorghum Residues on Weed Establishment Is Affected by Hybrid, Phenolic Acid Contents and Environment

    Robert John Kremer , Timothy Martin Reinbott

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2021
    Pages: 25-31
    Received: 04 January 2021
    Accepted: 05 March 2021
    Published: 17 March 2021
    DOI: 10.11648/j.jps.20210901.14
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    Abstract: Sorghum species are well known for allelopathic potential toward weeds and other crops. Sorghum above-ground residues mediate allelopathic activity through production and release of many allelochemicals including phenolic acids. Information is limited on selection of grain sorghum hybrids with high allelopathic potential and assessment of sorghum r... Show More
  • How Tropospheric Ozone Influences the Allelopathy of Woody Species: Some Experimental Approaches

    Roshchina Victoria Vladimirovna

    Issue: Volume 8, Issue 4, August 2020
    Pages: 71-79
    Received: 26 February 2020
    Accepted: 22 July 2020
    Published: 19 August 2020
    DOI: 10.11648/j.jps.20200804.11
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    Abstract: Plants undergo a high concentration of tropospheric ozone formed mainly as a result of industrial and automobile pollution that may act on allelopathic relations in biocenosis. The problem was considered in first experiments modeling in test reactions with leaf leachates from 10 woody species as plant-donors, exposed to ozone, and able to influence... Show More