A preliminary study on the allelopathy of legumes
The allelopathy of red clover, white clover and alfalfa were preliminarily studied using the biological detection method of culture dishes with filter paper The results showed that the three legumes under a certain sowing rate were significantly inhibited the seedling growth of radish, green grocery and tomato, the germination percentage, seedling length and weight were obviously declined The inhibition degree was related to legumes seed sowing rate Anyway, the three legumes have strong potentiality of allelopathy
The authors gratefully acknowledge the Australian Research ::: Council for financial support and Swinburne University ::: of Technology for Strategic Initiative funding. One of ::: the authors X.W. acknowledges partial financial support of ::: the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation ::: 10364004 and the Yunnan Natural Science Foundation ::: 2003E0013M.