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Allelochemicals are assumed to possess specific biological properties and responses of an organism are external expressions of such properties. Based on this assumption, a mathematical model has been constructed to interpret the characteristic responses of an organism to allelochemicals. Several sets of experimental data have been compared with the model predictions; good agreement between the model and data is observed.
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An, M., Johnson, I.R. & Lovett, J.V. Mathematical modeling of allelopathy: Biological response to allelochemicals and its interpretation. J Chem Ecol 19, 2379–2388 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00979671
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