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5. Wu JQ, Baldwin IT (2009) Herbivory-induced signalling in plants: perception and action.
Plant Cell Environ 32:1161–1174
6. Cheng F, Cheng ZH (2015) Research progress on the use of plant allelopathy in
agriculture and the physiological and ecological mechanisms of allelopathy. Front Plant
Sci 6:1–16
7. Singh HP, Batish DR, Kohli RK (2003) Allelopathic interactions and allelochemicals: new
possibilities for sustainable weed management. CRC Crit Rev Plant Sci 22:239–311
8. Callaway R, Ridenour WM (2004) Novel weapons: invasive success and the evolution of
increased competitive ability. Front Ecol Environ 2:436–443
9. Vivanco JM, Bais HP, Stermitz FR, Thelen G, Callaway R (2004) Biogeographical variation
in community response to root allelochemistry: novel weapons and exotic invasion. Ecol
Lett 7:285–292
10. Ridenour WM, Callaway R (2001) The relative importance of allelopathy in interference: the
effects of an invasive weed on a native bunchgrass. Oecologia 126:444–450
11. He W-M, Feng Y, M Ridenour W, Thelen G, Pollock J, Diaconu A, Callaway RM
(2009) Novel weapons and invasion: biogeographic differences in the competitive
effects of Centaurea maculosa and its root exudate (Æ)-catechin. Oecologia 159:803–815
12. Burkart A (1976) A monograph of the genus Prosopis (Leguminosae, subfam. Mimosoidae).
J Arnold Arbor 57:219–249
13. Walter K Prosopis, an alien among the sacred trees of South India. Dissertation, University of
Helsinki
14. Nascimento CES, Tabarelli M, Silva C, Leal I, Tavares W, Serrão J, Zanuncio J (2014) The
introduced tree Prosopis juliflora is a serious threat to native species of the Brazilian Caatinga
vegetation. Sci Total Environ 481:108–113
15. Oliveira BF, Costa GC, Fonseca CR (2018) Niche dynamics of two cryptic Prosopis invading
South American drylands. Biol Invasions 20:181–194
16. Resumo L, Cunha L, Ramonildes A (2012) ATrajetória da Algaroba no Semiárido Nordestino:
Dilemas Políticos e Científicos. Raízes 32:72–95
17. Rodrigues LC, AAd S, RBd S, AFMd O, LdHC A (2013) Conhecimento e uso da carnaúba e
da algaroba em comunidades do Sertão do Rio Grande do Norte, Nordeste do Brasil. Revista
Árvore 37:451–457
18. UPd A, LdHC A (2002) Conhecimento bot^ anico tradicional e conservação em uma área de
caatinga no estado de Pernambuco, Nordeste do Brasil. Acta Bot Bras 16:273–285
19. de Albuquerque UP, de Medeiros PM, de Almeida ALS, Monteiro JM, de Freitas Lins Neto
EM, de Melo JG, dos Santos JP (2007) Medicinal plants of the caatinga (semi-arid) vegetation
of NE Brazil: a quantitative approach. J Ethnopharmacol 114:325–354
20. Braga R (1976) Plantas do Nordeste, especialmente do Ceará. Universitária-UFRN, Natal
21. Queiroz L (2009) Leguminosas da caatinga. Editora Universitária UEFS, Feira de Santana
22. Mendes B (1989) Potencialidades de Utilização da Algarobeira (Prosopis juliflora (SW) DC)
no Semi-árido Brasileiro. Coleção Mossoroense, Mossoró
23. Shackleton R, Le Maitre D, Pasiecznik N, Richardson D (2014) Prosopis: a global assessment
of the biogeography, benefits, impacts and management of one of the world’s worst woody
invasive plant taxa. AoB Plants 6:1–18
24. Patnaik P, Abbasi T, Abbasi SA (2017) Prosopis (Prosopis juliflora): blessing and bane. J Trop
Ecol 58:455–483
25. Green TR, Ryan CA (1972) Wound-induced proteinase inhibitor in plant leaves – possible
defense mechanisms against insects. Science 175:776–777
26. Gatehouse JA (2002) Plant resistance towards insect herbivores: a dynamic interaction. New
Phytol 156:145–169
27. Tian D, Traw MB, Chen JQ, Kreitman M, Bergelson J (2003) Fitness costs of R-genemediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 423:74–77
536
G. A. de Brito Damasceno et al.