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Plants face several stresses throughout their life cycle. In agricultural systems, in order to achieve higher yields, excessive usage of chemical based herbicides, pesticides, weedicides and fertilizers have become a necessity which is harming the environment and ultimately the human life. Alleopathy is a mechanism in plants in which specific compounds are produced that influence the growth and development of other living organisms as a part of defence system as well as they contribute in determining the dynamics of species distribution. The strategy has the potential to become a successful alternative for plant protection strategy.

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