Impact of invasive Lantana camara on maize and cassava growth in East Usambara, Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: The impacts of invasive alien plant species on native plants are generally well documented, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying their impacts on crop growth. A better understanding of immediate as well as legacy effects and of direct and indirect impacts of invasive alien plant species is essential for an improved management of invaded cropland. We investigated how Lantana camara impacts the growth of two subsistence crops (maize and cassava) through competition for resources, allelopathy and the indirect plant-plant interactions. We carried out two pot experiments using soils from invaded abandoned, invaded cultivated and non-invaded cultivated crop fields. In the first experiment maize and cassava were grown alone or together with L. camara and half of the p

SUBMITTER: Hamad AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10168096 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature