Justus Ludewig von Uslar, and the First Book on Allelopathy - Willis, R.J.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2004)
The Historical Background to Allelopathy: from Antiquity to c. 1840 -- Justus Ludewig von Uslar (1780-1862) A Brief Biography -- Die Bodenvergiftung durch die Wurzel-Ausscheidungen der Pflanzen als vorzüglichster Grund für die Pflanzen-Wechsel-Wirthschaft: About the Book and Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Importance and Use of Crop Rotation -- Nature Clearly Hints toward an Alternation of Plants -- Earlier Opinions on Crop Rotation -- The Importance of Investigating and Learning about the True Reasons for the Necessity of Crop Rotation -- The Law of Nature which makes Crop Rotation Necessary -- A Short History of the Theory on the Poisoning of Soil through Plant Excrement, and consequently the Necessity for the Alternation of Crops -- Some Words on the Nutrition of Plants -- The Secretions of Plants -- Is the Plant Excrement Accepted, without direct observations, but then according to analogies, as exist in nature?- What does the Plant Excrement consist of?- How does the Elimination of Plant Excreta happen?- The Effects of Plant Excreta -- Sympathy of Plant Species -- Antipathies of Plant Species -- Indifference in Plant Species -- How does the Plant Excreta of Different Plant Species cause them to be either Sympathetic, or Antipathetic or Indifferent?- On the Means which Nature uses in order to Neutralise the Detrimental Effects of Plant Excreta, even though they are useful and necessary in the large economy -- Support of Nature in the Case of Decomposition of Plant Excrements through Cultivation -- Indications for the Practice of Crop Rotation -- Resumé and Table of Contents -- Index.
Keywords: Plant science; Botany; Plant ecology; Agriculture; Soil science; Soil conservation; Organic chemistry; Plant pathology; Plant Sciences; Plant Ecology; Agriculture; Soil Science & Conservation; Organic Chemistry; Plant Pathology