Chemical Warfare

By Iain MacLeod on Friday, August 26, 2005.

To give themselves an edge over their neighbors, many plants have evolved the ability to deploy chemicals, to make life a lot harder for other plants. That way, they can have more space and resources for themselves. This phenomenon is called allelopathy.

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