TY - JOUR AU - FOLARIN, Olamide O. AU - OGUNKUNLE, Clement O. AU - OYEDEJI, Stephen O. AU - KOLAWOLE, Saheed PY - 2015/12/13 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Growth Response of Three Leafy Vegetables to the Allelopathic Effect of Vitellaria paradoxa JF - Notulae Scientia Biologicae JA - Not Sci Biol VL - 7 IS - 4 SE - Research articles DO - 10.15835/nsb749666 UR - https://notulaebiologicae.ro/index.php/nsb/article/view/9666 SP - 460-463 AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">This study was conducted to evaluate the growth response of three leafy vegetables (<em>Celosia argentea</em>, <em>Amaranthus cruentus </em>and <em>Amaranthus hypochodriacus</em>) to the leaf extract of <em>Vitellaria paradoxa.</em> Forty-five (45) experimental plastic containers were filled with 5 kg of loamy soil each and randomly allocated to the following regimes: control, 20 g, 40 g, 60 g and 80 g of powdered leaves of <em>V. paradoxa</em>, in three (3) replicates for each test crop respectively. It was observed that the response of the three leafy vegetables, grown within different composition of <em>V. paradoxa</em> leaves, are concentration dependent with respect to the studied growth parameters (plant height, leaf number, leaf area, stem girth). This indicated that <em>V. paradoxa </em>has allelopathic potential on the studied vegetables and therefore it could be used for natural weed control.</p> ER -