Detecting Mineral Nutrient Deficiencies In Tropical And Temperate Crops

by Donald L Plucknett

Overview

This book deals an essential aspect of crop management in identification of deficiencies of plant nutrients and their diagnostic methods. The book provides soil and tissue analysis standards critical in plant nutrition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429709234
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/02/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	568
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Plucknett, Donald L

Table of Contents

Preface -- Diagnostic Techniques -- Visual Plant Symptoms as Indicators of Mineral Nutrient Deficiencies -- Soil Testing as a Guide to Productive Crop Yields -- Plant and Tissue Testing Principles Relating to the Identification of Nutrient Deficiencies -- Cereal Crops -- Rice -- Wheat -- Maize -- Sorghum -- Barley -- Pearl Millet -- Grain Legumes -- Soybeans -- Dry Beans -- Dry Peas -- Mungbean -- Groundnut (Peanut) -- Cowpea -- Roots and Tubers -- Potato -- Cassava -- Sweet Potato -- Onions -- Sugar Crops -- Sugarcane -- Sugarbeets -- Vegetables -- Tomato -- Cabbage and Cauliflower -- Cucumbers -- Eggplants -- Melons -- Peppers -- Fruits and Nuts, Tree Crops -- Apples -- Peaches -- Citrus -- Banana -- Walnuts -- Mango -- Tropical and Subtropical Industrial Crops -- Cotton -- Rubber -- Oil Palm -- Coconut -- Cacao -- Coffee -- Temperate Forages -- Alfalfa (Lucerne) -- Red Clover -- Lespedeza -- Orchardgrass -- Tall Fescue -- Bermudagrass (Stargrass) -- Tropical Forages -- Stylosanthes Species -- Glycine -- Centrosema -- Tropical Grasses

Editorial Reviews

Forty-nine papers offer a practical examination of the three diagnostic methods used to identify deficiencies of plant nutrients: visual observation of symptoms, soil analyses, and leaf and tissue analyses. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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