ArticlePloS one2021
Invasive species allelopathy decreases plant growth and soil microbial activity.
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- Allelopathic effects of four spontaneous plants from arid regions on the germination and growth of selected weeds and crops.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Unraveling the chemical communication of root exudates and allelopathy for sustainable ecology and agriculture.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2025Review
- Effects of whole-plant extracts of four species dominant in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau on their germination and growth patterns.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
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- Invasive Plants' Root Extracts Display Stronger Allelopathic Activity on the Germination and Seedling Growth of a New Zealand Native Species than Extracts of Another Native Plant or Conspecifics.Journal of chemical ecology · 2024Article
- Invasive plants and their root traits are linked to the homogenization of soil microbial communities across the United States.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The Invasive Alien PlantPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Facilitating effects of plant extracts on soil health and replanted Panax ginseng growth in recession soil.PloS one · 2024Article
- Persistence of Root Exudates ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dense Cover, but Not Allelopathic Potential, of Naturalized AlienPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Four Invasive Plant Species in Southwest Saudi Arabia Have Variable Effects on Soil Dynamics.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The competitive strategies of poisonous weedsFrontiers in plant science · 2023Article
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Abstract
According to the 'novel weapons hypothesis', invasive success depends on harmful plant biochemicals, including allelopathic antimicrobial roots exudate that directly inhibit plant growth and soil microbial activity. However, the combination of direct and soil-mediated impacts of invasive plants via allelopathy remains poorly understood. Here, we addressed the allelopathic effects of an invasive plant species (Rhus typhina) on a cultivated plant (Tagetes erecta), soil properties and microbial communities. We grew T. erecta on soil samples at increasing concentrations of R. typhina root extracts and measured both plant growth and soil physiological profile with community-level physiological profiles (CLPP) using Biolog Eco-plates incubation. We found that R. typhina root extracts inhibit both plant growth and soil microbial activity. Plant height, Root length, soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN) and AWCD were significantly decreased with increasing root extract concentration, and plant above-ground biomass (AGB), below-ground biomass (BGB) and total biomass (TB) were significantly decreased at 10 mg·mL-1 of root extracts. In particular, root extracts significantly reduced the carbon source utilization of carbohydrates, carboxylic acids and polymers, but enhanced phenolic acid. Redundancy analysis shows that soil pH, TN, SOC and EC were the major driving factors of soil microbial activity. Our results indicate that strong allelopathic impact of root extracts on plant growth and soil microbial activity by mimicking roots exudate, providing novel insights into the role of plant-soil microbe interactions in mediating invasion success.
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