Growing Greener

Chemical Warfare from Invasive Plants

April 8 · 29 min · Episode 357 · 42.0 MB
0:00-29:01

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One of the ways that invasive plants displace indigenous floras is "allelopathy." In a conversation first broadcast in February 2024, Dr. Susan Kalisz of the University of Tennessee Knoxville describes how many introduced plants actually poison the soil so that indigenous species cannot germinate or flourish in their former homes.