Justus Ludewig von Uslar, and the First Book on Allelopathy

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willis, R.J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
Edition:1st ed. 2004.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2753-6
Table of Contents:
  • 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.