USSR Prominent Allelopathy Scientists- Part III (1926-2010)
USSR Prominent Allelopathy Scientists- Part III (1926-2010)
- Author(s) Y.H. Tsytsiura and S.S. Narwal
- Year: 2025
- Month: July
- Volume: 65
- Pages: 111-146
The article describes the outstanding results of a long cycle of research (main achievements and theoretical and practical developments) for the period 1904-2019 on the issues of allelopathy by scientists of the Soviet period of the USSR. The main biographical data and achievements of scientific activity of outstanding Soviet scientists in the field of allelopathy are given: Andrei Mikhailovich Grodzinsky, Givi Alexandrovich Sanadze, Yulian Andriyovich Zlobin, ?rast Anatoliyovych Golovko, Larisa Dem'yanivna Yurchak. Scientists of this period significantly deepened the mechanism of allopathic interaction of plants. In accordance with the results of A.M. Grodzinsky's research, a holistic scientific concept of allopathy was formed and fully detailed, which included the entire spectrum of active alleloochemicals - volatile phytoncides, root soil extrudates derived from the immobilization of plant residues. The existence of the soil fatigue mechanism was formulated and proved, on the basis of which agrotechnological approaches to the formation of crop rotations, the creation of complex polyphyllous crops, phytodesign and the formation of highly productive agricultural landscapes, the use of the identified mechanisms of allelopathic effects in the formation of biological protection (herbicide-free control) were formed. The methodology of laboratory and field study of allelochemicals in the application of various practices was significantly deepened in terms of plant species, soil type and the nature of the soil and climatic regime of the territories. These developments in terms of detailing allelochemicals and their resulting effects and aftereffects in the cenosis of different plant species and cenotic systems of varying complexity and tiering were deepened by Grodzinsky's scientific followers and students - E.A. Golovko and L.D. Yurchak. G.A. Sanadze's research deepened Tokin's phytoncidal theory by studying the complex mechanism of plant interaction through volatile biologically active secretions (the isoprene theory is generally recognized in the world). Another scientist Y.A. Zlobin developed the concept of the vitalized structure of plant cenopopulations, which is still used by scientists around the world to assess species competition and the viability of plant populations and is a format for the structural morphometric response of plants and their blends to different levels of allopathic interaction.
