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Novel weapons: Do invasive grasses produce allelopathic chemicals to inhibit native grass establishment, growth, and reproduction?
Author
Mitch Greer
Shana Lancaster
Gail Wilson
Karen Hickman
Publication Year
2013
Body

Biological invasion refers to the process by which a new species enters a native biological community, reproduces, and displaces native species. Bothriochloa ischaemum, is an invasive warm-season perennial grass of Eurasian origin that is a threat to native prairies of the southern and central Great Plains. B. ischaemum is functionally similar to dominant native warm-season grasses Andropogon gerardii and Schizachyrium scoparium. One potential mechanism for B. ischaemum

Language
eng
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Mitch Greer, Shana Lancaster, Gail Wilson, Karen Hickman --- Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA