Controlled Environment Horticulture: Improving Quality of Vegetables and Medicinal Plants

ISBN-13: 9783030231965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 233 str.

Christoph-Martin Geilfus

Opis

An understanding of crop physiology and ecophysiology enables the horticulturist to manipulate a plant's metabolism towards the production of compounds that are beneficial for human health when that plant is part of the diet or the source of phytopharmaceutical compounds.

Spis treści

Part 1 – Introduction

1.      Introduction

2.      Protected Cropping in Horticulture

3.      Plant Secondary Compounds

4.      Hydroponic Systems in Horticulture

Part 2 – Controllable Production Factors in Horticulture

5.      Light

6.      Nutrient deficiencies

7.      Salt stress

8.      Drought Stress

9.      Thermal Stress

10.  Wounding

11.  Mycorrhiza

12.  Microbial and Plant-Based Biostimulants

13.  Mineral Biofortification

14.  CO₂ Enrichment

15.  Hormones

16.  Intercropping

Part 3 – Exercise

17.  Acrylamide Concentrations of Deep-fried Potatoes

18.  Enrichment of Anthocyanin in Pak Choi

19.  Improving Flavor of Tomatoes

20.  Biofortification of Carrots

21.  Enrichment of Flavonoids in Lettuce

22.  Effect of Germination Substrates on Tomato Plants

O autorze

Christoph-Martin Geilfus, horticulturist and agronomist, born in 1983, studied Agriculture and Agrobiotechnology in Giessen, Germany. He received a doctorate and habilitated in Plant Nutrition in Kiel, Germany. After working as a visiting professor in Leuven, Belgium, he was appointed as Professor for Controlled Environment Horticulture at Berlin, Germany. His research interests include horticulture, the mineral nutrition of crops, apoplastic stress signalling and guard cell biology.

Blurb

An understanding of crop physiology and ecophysiology enables the horticulturist to manipulate a plant’s metabolism towards the production of compounds that are beneficial for human health when that plant is part of the diet or the source of phytopharmaceutical compounds.

The first part of the book introduces the concept of Controlled Environment Horticulture as a horticultural production technique used to maximize yields via the optimization of access to growing factors. The second part describes the use of this production technique in order to induce stress responses in the plant via the modulation of these growing factors and, importantly, the way that this manipulation induces defence reactions in the plant resulting in the production of compounds beneficial for human health. The third part provides guidance for the implementation of this knowledge in horticultural production.