On January 21, 2012, [email protected] wrote:
> Can someone see the flaw in the forthcoming logic?
> 
> If any species produced allelopathic substances inhibiting others of
> its own species, would it not inhibit itself too?
> The only way around this is if every seed produced an individually
> different sort of allelopathy that would inhibit others of the species,
> but not itself.

I think it usually is that the growing plants produce some substance that 
inhibits the germination of it's or other species' seeds. Otherwise, 
you're right, of course.

Lis

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