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Toxic Excreta of Plants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

F. Fletcher
F. Fletcher
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(Lately Director, School of Agriculture, Gizeh, Egypt.)
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The writer has pointed out the influence that some agricultural plants have on others when grown in close proximity to them. It was demonstrated (inter alia) that a row of Sesamum indicum (gingelly), when sown at a distance of two feet from a row of Sorghum vulgare (great millet), will not mature, the plants dying after reaching a height of a few centimetres. These experiments were made at Surat (India) on black cotton soil of a very retentive nature; this character of the soil combined with a rainfall of 42 inches per annum all falling in 3½ months, doubtless emphasized the deleterious effect of the sorghum on the sesamum since the washing of the soil was a minimum.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , January 1912 , pp. 245 - 247
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1912

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References

page 245 note 1 Vol. II. No. 3 (Bot. Ser.), Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, April, 1908.

page 245 note 2 Nature, August 27, 1908.

page 245 note 3 Nature, June 23, 1910.

page 247 note 1 The relative weights have unfortunately been lost. The photographs and weights of the duplicates agree very closely.

page 247 note 2 U.S.A. Bur. of Soils, Bull. 53, April, 1909.

page 247 note 3 Cairo Scientific Journal, 4, No. 43, 04, 1910.Google Scholar