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STRATEGY CHANGES. "Results suggest that an individual C. stoebe plant can change its defensive strategy based on the identity of plant neighbours. This strategy is likely to have important consequences for individual and community success." https://lnkd.in/d_tsqB7 View in LinkedIn

PARASITE CLUES. "Parasitic plants, often completely dependent on their host for survival, have evolved mechanisms for sensing and locating their hosts. Sorghum, maize, and pearl millet secrete strigolactones into the soil which attract the parasitic Striga to their location." https://lnkd.in/d_tsqB7 View in LinkedIn

ANOTHER TOXIN. "Recently, it was discovered that the extremely invasive Phragmites australis secretes gallic acid into the surrounding soil as a phytotoxin to kill nearby native plants." https://lnkd.in/d_tsqB7 View in LinkedIn

SECRETED TOXINS. "Recent studies also suggest that other invasive plants, such as Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis), Centaurea stoebe, and narrow-leaf cattail (Typha angustifolia), may produce allelochemicals that inhibit native plants directly." https://lnkd.in/d_tsqB7 View in LinkedIn

INHIBITING COMPETITOR'S MYCORRHYZA. "The most elegant example is the recent work on the chemical effects of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), an invasive understorey forb in North American forests. Garlic mustard secretes benzyl isothiocyanate, which inhibits the growth of mycorrhizal fungi that support tree diversity." https://lnkd.in/d_tsqB7 View in LinkedIn

INTRASPECIES COMMUNICATION. "Plant–plant interactions can be interspecies or intraspecies communications; a perfect example of interspecies communication comes from plant species which use chemicals to inhibit the growth of other plants." https://lnkd.in/d_tsqB7 View in LinkedIn

ALLELOPATHY IN PLANTS. "In addition to these plant–insect and plant–microbe interactions, plant– plant interactions have been well documented ranging from negative interactions such as allelopathy to positive interactions such as the release of volatile compounds as a warning to other plants." https://lnkd.in/d_tsqB7 View in LinkedIn

PHENOTYPIC CHANGES. "Plants sense the presence of other plants and respond by producing more competitive phenotypes." http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/4/435.short View in LinkedIn

FAMILY WHISPERING. "Populations of sagebrush are genetically structured so that an individual is likely to be surrounded by other individuals that are close relatives. Here, we have demonstrated that plants communicate more effectively with kin and that this communication increases plant resistance to herbivores. Plants responded more effectively to the cues emitted by kin rather than strangers." http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1756/20123062.short View in LinkedIn

"KIN SELECTION is facilitated by kin recognition, which allows organisms to favour relatives preferentially over strangers, reducing the costs of positive interactions. Kin and other multilevel selection has been demonstrated in plants, and self-incompatibility systems allow plants to discriminate against relatives in mating." http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/4/435.short View in LinkedIn