Abstract
Plants not only react to physical and chemical stimuli from the abiotic environment (see Sect. 6.7), but they also interact in many ways with other living organisms. Phytochrome reactions to shading from leaves or light reflected from neighboring plants were mentioned earlier (see Sect. 6.7.2.1). Research on molecular processes during the interaction of plants with other organisms is now an independent area of physiology which is discussed under the term “allelophysiology” (Greek allélos, mutual, reciprocal) and is summarized in the following section.
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Sonnewald, U. (2013). Allelophysiology. In: Strasburger's Plant Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15518-5_8
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