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In his recent TREE news & comment, Watkinson1 drew attention to the role of soil microorganisms in plant population dynamics. In particular, he reported on the dynamical framework for the inter-relations between the composition of plant and soil communities, proposed last year by Bever et al.2 It is worth adding allelopathic interactions to this picture. Allelopathy has been defined by Rice3 as...

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Editor—We thank Drs Shelly and Kinsella for their comments on our study. We are pleased to respond to the questions they raise. 1. Whether a more exact and precise definition of what constitutes a complication and morbidity should have been defined before commencement of the study. As this was a prospective observational rather than an interventional study, the data collection sheet was designe...

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To the Editor: In interesting paper, Fehr et al [1] showed relative erythropoietin deficiency in patients with GFR <40 mL/min, and concluded that it was the sequence of either altered set point for hormone production or due to renal tissue damage. On the other hand, Machiguchi et al’s paper [2] and our preliminary study led to extend Fehr’s explanation. Machiguchi et al [2] have shown that in p...