Plant nutrition and soil fertility manual
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, Fla. :
CRC Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Distributed by publisher. Purchase or institutional license may be required for access. |
Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Introduction
- ch. 2. Soil fertility principles
- ch. 3. Plant nutrition principles
- ch. 4. The plant root
- ch. 5. How to be a diagnostician
- ch. 6. Soil taxonomy, horizontal characteristics, and clay minerals
- ch. 7. Physical properties of soils
- ch. 8. Physiochemical properties of soil
- ch. 9. Soil pH : its determination and interpretation
- ch. 10. Soil organic matter
- ch. 11. Major essential plant elements
- ch. 12. Micronutrients considered essential to plants
- ch. 13. Elements considered beneficial to plants
- ch. 14. Elements considered toxic to plants
- ch. 15. Trace elements found in plants
- ch. 16. Soil testing
- ch. 17. Plant analysis and tissue testing
- ch. 18. Lime and liming materials
- ch. 19. Inorganic chemical fertilizers and their properties
- ch. 20. Organic fertilizers and their properties
- ch. 21. Fertilizer placement
- ch. 22. Soil water, irrigation, and water quality
- ch. 23. Hydroponics
- ch. 24. Soilless rooting growing media
- ch. 25. Organic farming/gardening
- ch. 26. Weather and climatic conditions
- ch. 27. Best management practices (BMPs).