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RE: Chemical warfare in the plant kingdom: allelopathy
Interesting! I'm into gardening, and have read that some plants like to be planted near each-other because they "help" each-other fend off insects, etc, but I had never read the opposite, that some plants try to "kill" other nearby plants. Super cool stuff!
It is really a complex ecosystem for plants. Most of the invasive plants thrive through secretion of allelochemicals which keeps away other plants, allowing them to dominate the environment.