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Laboratory Model Systems and Field Systems: Some Final Thoughts

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This Chapter compares field systems with past and present laboratory bioassay systems, provides some thoughts on how to minimize the impacts of atypical factors in present seed and seedling laboratory bioassays, points out which factors limit our ability to design field-relevant model systems, suggests future directions for laboratory and field research on plant-plant allelopathic interactions in a question format, and outlines the central tenets (i.e., opinions, doctrines, or principles) articulated in this volume.

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Blum, U. (2014). Laboratory Model Systems and Field Systems: Some Final Thoughts. In: Plant-Plant Allelopathic Interactions II. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04732-4_7

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