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The Excretory Function of Higher Plants (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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The Excretory Function of Higher Plants (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Until the 1930s biological science had not paid sufficient
attention to the excretory function of plants. The interest in the
ability of plants to release various compounds arose in connection
with two discoveries. In 1930, the embryologist Boris Tokin
reported that in plant excreta there are substances which he called
"phytoncides", because they possessed an antimicrobial activity.
Later, Hans Molisch (1937), based on numerous observations,
concluded that chemicals released by plants can participate in a
competition between plants in phytocenosis. At the same time the
first monograph Die Stoffausscheidung der hoheren Pflanzen by
Frey-Wyssling (1935) appeared, in which the excretory function of
plants was considered, mainly from the anatomo-physiological
viewpoint. Almost half a century after these fundamental works, the
excretion by plants was studied in various fields of biology: plant
anatomy and cytology, biocenol- ogy, plant immunology, and
pharmacology. Anatomical and cytological data dealing with plant
secretory structures are reviewed in detail in some monographs
(Schnepf 1969; Vasilyev 1977; Fahn 1979; Buvat 1989; Denisova
1989). Many publications are devoted to the role of plant excreta
in phytocenosis, mainly in connection with allelopathic inter-
actions. They are summarized in the books of Chernobrivenko (1956),
Grodzin- skii (1965, 1991), Ivanov (1973), Rice (1974, 1984),
Kolesnichenko (1976).
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