Claim · #6495164
Desmodium spp. · facilitation · Striga hermonthica
facilitation · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Desmodium suppresses Striga through allelopathic exudates”
- Authors
- Bezner Kerr R., Madsen S., Stuber M., Liebert J., Enloe S., Borghino N., Parros P., Mutyambai D., Prudhon M., Wezel A.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Global Food Security
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Allelopathic Desmodium root exudates (isoflavonoids) inducing suicidal Striga germination is established (Khan et al. 2002, 2008).”
- soil-scientist · plausible
“Root-exudate-mediated rhizosphere chemistry suppressing a parasitic weed is a soil-biology-adjacent mechanism within scope.”
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