Crabgrass Carries Out Chemical Warfare

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Crabgrass Carries Out Chemical Warfare

Post by fsl » January 10th, 2014, 7:37 pm

Bumped into the following on the web, which I found interesting:

Crabgrass Carries Out Chemical Warfare
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podca ... a-13-07-09

Crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis) Allelochemicals That Interfere with Crop Growth and the Soil Microbial Community
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf401605g
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Re: Crabgrass Carries Out Chemical Warfare

Post by McLovin » January 11th, 2014, 11:01 pm

Nice find and thank you for sharing.
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Re: Crabgrass Carries Out Chemical Warfare

Post by Wally » January 12th, 2014, 9:03 am

I wonder if those crabgrass produced chemicals could be the future in the war on Poa?
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