This usually describes plant-plant interactions, as its original description by Molisch (1937) suggests: 'The influence of one plant on another'. Given the prevalence and detriment of weeds (Oerke, 2005), and the burgeoning development of populations with resistance to multiple synthetic herbicides (Powles & Yu, 2010), allelopathy may be a valuable alternative to traditional chemical control (Macias et al., 2007), in various forms of delivery, including the deployment of