Diagnosing Nutritional Disorders in Field Crops and Their Management
Contents: Preface. 1. Soil conditions in plant nutrition. 2. Diagnosing deficiency and toxicity of nutrients by soil and plant testing. 3. Soil and plant analysis for horticultural crops. 4. Nitrogen in nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 5. Phosphorus nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 6. Potassium nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 7. Calcium nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 8. Sulphur in plant nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 9. Boron nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 10. Iron nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 11. Copper nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 12. Manganese nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 13. Zinc nutrition in plants, its deficiency and management. 14. Site specific nutrient management. References.
Age old saying goes prevention is better than cure. And for this to happen, proper diagnosis is key. There is no single gateway of identifying nutritional disorders in soil, plant continuum. While there can be nutrients for which unique colour is manifested on the foliage, each time plant goes hungry for the nutrient. However, there are several nutrients, which will play hide and seek role in visual judgements of its deficiencies on the foliage of the leaves. The book written in a very simple language will enable the readers in diagnosing properly first the disorders and then will lead to most scientific cure of the same in soil-plant system. Several photos will add in proper diagnosis as some photos are so intense in their visual interpretations that an average reader/user will also be able to diagnose properly the deficiency of nutrients. This of course follows deliberations on how climate influences changes in nutrient fluxes inside a soil - plant system. It is a common anecdote in India in Hindi that Sawan Me Sab Hara Hai. This is true as when dry spells looms large, leaves become yellow in want of nutrients and go droopy and finally drops. (jacket)
Age old saying goes prevention is better than cure. And for this to happen, proper diagnosis is key. There is no single gateway of identifying nutritional disorders in soil, plant continuum. While there can be nutrients for which unique colour is manifested on the foliage, each time plant goes hungry for the nutrient. However, there are several nutrients, which will play hide and seek role in visual judgements of its deficiencies on the foliage of the leaves. The book written in a very simple language will enable the readers in diagnosing properly first the disorders and then will lead to most scientific cure of the same in soil-plant system. Several photos will add in proper diagnosis as some photos are so intense in their visual interpretations that an average reader/user will also be able to diagnose properly the deficiency of nutrients. This of course follows deliberations on how climate influences changes in nutrient fluxes inside a soil - plant system. It is a common anecdote in India in Hindi that Sawan Me Sab Hara Hai. This is true as when dry spells looms large, leaves become yellow in want of nutrients and go droopy and finally drops. (jacket)
