Justus Ludewig von Uslar, and the First Book on AllelopathyAllelopathy is a fascinating and perplexing topic that concerns the chemical interactions of plants. It has profound implications in agriculture and forestry where species are grown artificially in mixture, with no evolutionary history of co-existence. The topic of allelopathy is widely credited as commencing in 1937, when the term ‘allelopathy’ was coined by Molisch. However, the concept of allelopathy has been recorded since Greek and Roman times, became extremely controversial in the first half of the 19th century, and remains so today. This book concerns a virtually unknown treatise by Justus Ludewig von Uslar, published in 1844, which emerges as the first book entirely devoted to the concept of allelopathy. The book provides the historical background to allelopathic knowledge, from antiquity to c. 1840. It also provides for the first time a biography of Justus Ludewig von Uslar, who is best known as the first Consul-General for Hannover in Mexico, and Director of the Mexican Company, a British venture mining company. In many ways von Uslar epitomises the tradition of the gentleman scientist of the 19th century. The book then offers a full translation into English of von Uslar's rare treatise, which foreshadows many ideas current in allelopathic research. |
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... organic material from the soil; that is, they were regarded as organisms which fed on humus or organic matter from the soil, and then, in a manner analogous to animals, had to excrete their wastes. This idea seems to have been most ...
... organic matter or humus. Thus despite important breakthroughs in the understanding of photosynthesis by his contemporaries, such as Bonnet, Ingenhousz, Senebier and de Saussure, de Candolle was still happy to explain that plants feed in ...
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Contents
vi | 13 |
Justus Ludewig von Uslar 17801862 A Brief Biography | 17 |
Die Bodenvergiftung durch die WurzelAusscheidungen der 35 | 34 |
Introduction | 43 |
Earlier Opinions on Crop Rotation | 53 |
The Law of Nature which makes Crop Rotation Necessary | 60 |
Some Words on the Nutrition of Plants | 86 |
but then according to analogies as exist in nature? | 89 |
How does the Elimination of Plant Excreta happen? | 97 |
Antipathies of Plant Species | 105 |
How does the Plant Excreta of Different Plant Species cause | 112 |
Support of Nature in the Case of Decomposition of Plant | 119 |
Index | 137 |