Allelopathy the term coined by Prof. Hans Molisch, a German Plant Physiologist in 1937 is a new field of science. However, no standard methods are being used by various workers due to lack of compendium on the Techniques, hence, the results obtained are not easily comparable with each others. Till now lot of allelopathy research has been done in various fields of Agricultural and Plant Sciences. However, there is no compilation of various Research Methods used. Every scientist is conducting research in his own way. Therefore, to make available the standard methods for conducting research independently in plant sciences, this Multi-volume book has been planned. Since there are several disciplines/areas of research, hence, separate volume has been planned for each discipline. Prof. S.S. Narwal has planned this multivolume book Research Methods in Plant Sciences: and till now 8-volumes have been published and 3 volumes including this one are in 'In Press'. The book is devided into 3 Sections: Section I. Soil Preparation and Preliminary Analysis that includes 3 chapters (Samples collection, Handling and storage, Colorimetric analysis, TLC and PC analysis). Section II. Analysis of Soil Allelochemicals has 15 Chapters (Amino acids, Enzymes, Lipids, Carbohydrates, Phenolic compounds, Terpenoids, Alkaloids, Cyanogenic compounds, Reactive oxygen species, Antioxidant capacity, Enzymatic, antioxidant system, Adenine and pyridine nucleotides, Vitamins, Jasmonates). In addition, Section III contains appendices. This book will serve as ready reference in the Laboratory or Class-Room teaching and will provide detailed methods for Laboratory and field studies in Agriculture and allied fields of Plant Sciences. Information provided can be used to determine the different allelochemicals in various types of Agro-ecosystems. It will be useful for Under-graduate and Post-graduate students and researchers, soil scientists, biochemists, chemists and other plant science specialists. We have tried to provide appropriate methods to determine allelochemicals in soils. The users of this book can select suitable methods, according to the available facilities.
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Prof. S.S. Narwal, an Internationally renowned allelopathy scientist is the first National Fellow (Allelopathy) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi from 1995 to 2005. Presently he is the President, of the Indian Society of Allelopathy and the Chief Editor, of Allelopathy Journal, has authored/edited 20 books on Allelopathy.
He has travelled to more than 35 countries in the 6 Continents, to deliver Lectures in International Allelopathy Conferences. In 1989, he attended all Soviet Allelopathy Conference as Visiting Professor, Department of Allelopathy, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, and also read Allelopathy Reprints from Prof. A.M. Grodzinsky's Collection. Prof. Narwal established Indian Society of Allelopathy in 1990 which was appreciated and Prof. E.L. Rice, USA wrote 'Congratulations, Prof. Narwal for Establishing the First National
Allelopathy Society in the World'. He is also Founder of International Allelopathy Society (1994) during the II. International Allelopathy Conference, New Delhi. He has organised, 4 International Allelopathy Conferences in India: 1992 (Hisar), 1994 (New Delhi), 1998 (Dharwad), 2004 (Hisar).
Prof. Lech Szajdak, Professor (Agronomy) since 2006, is presently Chairman, Department of Environment Chemistry, Institute of Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland. He obtained M.Sc. (Pharmacy) in 1977, Ph.D. (Pharmacy) in 1986 and Doctor (Honoris causa) in 2009 from Estonia University of Life Sciences, Tartu. His professional interests are: (i) Free and bound biologically active substance (amino acids, phenolic acids, auxins, humic and fulvic acids, transient radicals, enzymes) in soils under crop rotation and continuous cropping of rye, conventional and no-tillage, fertilized with different mineral and organic fertilizers; (ii) Soil enzymes involved in nitrogen cycle; (iii) Chemical and biochemical process in organic soils, use of peat and peatlands in agriculture and the influences of secondary transformed peat soil on the content of hydrophilic and hydrophobic organic compounds of well-known and unknown structure.
Professor Szajdak has more than 350 research papers and 24 chapters in Monographs in his credit. He was Guest editor of 2-Special Issues Restoration of Peatland Soil for Agricultural Use and Processes, Mechanism and Use of Organic Soils in Agronomy Research and Plant and Soil, respectively. He has been principal investigator of 15 projects. He is member of Polish Humus Substances Society, International Humus Substances Society and European Geosciences Union.