article_snippet.sent: Dirk Selmar and Dirk Selmar colleagues at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, set out to uncover whether there are reasons for this beyond the use of illegal insecticides.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Dirk Selmar and his colleagues at the Technical University of Braunschweig
article_snippet.sent: As well as being interesting to the food industry, the findings prove that substances such as alkaloids, can be transferred from one plant, after its death, to another.
article_snippet.sent: Such ‘horizontal transfer of natural products’ sheds light on the hitherto unexplained success behind farming practices such as crop rotation and the co-cultivation of certain vegetables.