Increasing crop productivity to feed a growing population, while conserving the natural
resources, is one of the humanity's major challenges that needs to be overcome. To achieve …

Population increase, poverty, environmental degradation, and the use of synthetic
herbicides are interdependent and closely linked and hence influence global food safety …

Allelopathy is an emerging field with its wider applications in agriculture and allied
disciplines. In Pakistan, work on allelopathy was initiated in the early 1970s with screening …

Repellent and insecticidal activities of essential oils extracted from leaves of Artemisia
princeps Pamp and seeds of Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Presl. against storage pests …

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is known to contain water-soluble substances that are
allelopathic. Aqueous or methanol extracts and residues from leaves of lettuce cultivar …

Allelopathy is an important mechanism of plant interference mediated by the release of plant-
produced secondary metabolites or decomposition products of microbes to the aerial or soil …

In the worldwide search for new strategies in sustainable weed management, the use of
plant species able to produce and release phytotoxic compounds into the environment could …

Allelopathy plays an major role in agricultural management such as weed control, crop
protection, and crop re-establishment. Compositae plants have potent allelopathic activity …

The aim of this study was to test the botanical family of Asteraceae as a source of natural
herbicides. Twenty Asteraceae species were collected during flowering time and evaluated …

Highlights•Phenylpropanoids can steer plant growth and development.•Bioactive
phenylpropanoids are largely underexplored, and existing literature on this topic is often …