アレロパシー
allelopathy「アレロパシー」ってなんだろう
アブストラクト冒頭の文章にその定義がありますね。
別の言葉で説明すると、
ある植物が他の植物の生長を抑える物質を放出して、他の植物に影響を与える、動物や微生物を防ぐあるいは引き寄せる効果のこと。
その化学成分がアレロケミカルで、たとえばコーヒー豆のカフェイン☕
Research Progress on the use of Plant Allelopathy in Agriculture and the Physiological and Ecological Mechanisms of Allelopathy
Abstract （以下、改行を入れています）（キーワードにある用語をグリーンにしています）
Allelopathy is a common biological phenomenon by which one organism produces biochemicals that influence the growth, survival, development, and reproduction of other organisms.
These biochemicals are known as allelochemicals and have beneficial or detrimental effects on target organisms. Plant allelopathy is one of the modes of interaction between receptor and donor plants and may exert either positive effects (e.g., for agricultural management, such as weed control, crop protection, or crop re-establishment) or negative effects (e.g., autotoxicity, soil sickness, or biological invasion).
To ensure sustainable agricultural development, it is important to exploit cultivation systems that take advantage of the stimulatory/inhibitory influence of allelopathic plants to regulate plant growth and development and to avoid allelopathic autotoxicity.
Allelochemicals can potentially be used as growth regulators, herbicides, insecticides, and antimicrobial crop protection products.
Here, we reviewed the plant allelopathy management practices applied in agriculture and the underlying allelopathic mechanisms described in the literature.
The major points addressed are as follows:
(1) Description of management practices related to allelopathy and allelochemicals in agriculture.
(2) Discussion of the progress regarding the mode of action of allelochemicals and the physiological mechanisms of allelopathy, consisting of the influence on cell micro- and ultra-structure, cell division and elongation, membrane permeability, oxidative and antioxidant systems, growth regulation systems, respiration, enzyme synthesis and metabolism, photosynthesis, mineral ion uptake, protein and nucleic acid synthesis.
(3) Evaluation of the effect of ecological mechanisms exerted by allelopathy on microorganisms and the ecological environment.
(4) Discussion of existing problems and proposal for future research directions in this field to provide a useful reference for future studies on plant allelopathy.
Keywords: allelochemical, allelopathy, agriculture practice, physiological mechanism, ecological mechanism, microorganism, agricultural sustainable development
サステナブル sustainable という言葉も使われていますね。
