(bib-card) Does any1 kno any references that i can use my project "does caffeine affect the growth of a plant"

Question

I need to know so i can have it on my biology project for tomorrow. Thank You !!!!!

Answer 1

Caffeine is thought to be among the secondary or protective products a plant generates. If it is unpleasant the herbivore will stop eating it.

Frischknecht, P.M., et al. 1985. Purine alkaloid formation in buds and developing leaflets of Coffea arabica: expression of an optimal defense strategy. published in Phytochemistry
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17091387

If caffeine was able to inhibit competing plants you would find it under allopathic chemicals.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n7467x026715u742/
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en570/papers_1994/marko.html