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The Impacts of Selected Natural Plant Chemicals on Terrestrial Invertebrates

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Secondary Metabolites in Soil Ecology

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 14))

Plants produce thousands of chemicals that are not necessarily involved in their primary metabolism, but are likely to be involved in plant defence, communication and competition. These chemicals may be stored within plant tissues, e.g. to act as a defence from herbivorous predators, or may be actively released into the surrounding environment. Natural chemicals can enter the environment via a number of mechanisms, including volatilisation, exudation from roots, leaching from plant material and decomposition of plant residues, and also through direct transfer via root and shoot grafts, mycorrhizal fungi or haustorial connections of parasitic vascular plants (Rice 1984). Once released into the soil, these chemicals have the potential to positively or negatively affect the environment (soil structure, nutrient availability) and the organisms in an exposed area.

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Sorokin, N., Whitaker, J. (2008). The Impacts of Selected Natural Plant Chemicals on Terrestrial Invertebrates. In: Karlovsky, P. (eds) Secondary Metabolites in Soil Ecology. Soil Biology, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74543-3_12

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