Detecting Mineral Nutrient Deficiencies in Tropical and Temperate Crops

ISBN-13: 9780367005399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 568 str.

Donald L Plucknett

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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