Outline ways in which weeds affects plants

      

Outline ways in which weeds affects plants

  

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- Competing with the desired plants for the resources that a plant typically needs, namely, direct sunlight, soil nutrients, water, and (to a lesser extent) space for
growth;
- Providing hosts and vectors for plant pathogens, giving them greater opportunity to infect and degrade the quality of the desired plants;
- Providing food or shelter for animal pests such as seed-eating birds and Tephritid fruit flies that otherwise could hardly survive seasonal shortages;
- Offering irritation to the skin or digestive tracts of people or animals, either physical irritation via thorns, prickles, or burs, or chemical irritation via natural poisons or irritants in the weed (for example, the poisons found in Nerium species)
- Causing root damage to engineering works such as drains, road surfaces, and
foundations, blocking streams and river lets.
NatalieR answered the question on May 23, 2022 at 07:33


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