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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Fields of Study > ecology > ecological processes and phenomena > ecological competition > chemical communication > allelopathy > autotoxicity
Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment > ecology > ecological processes and phenomena > ecological competition > chemical communication > allelopathy > autotoxicity
Preferred Term:

autotoxicity

Definition:
A specific type of allelopathy where the presence of adult plants of a species interferes with the germination and development of seedlings from that species.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
allelopathy
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/335073
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RDF/XMLCreated 2019-10-28, last modified 2019-12-16