
Soilless Culture: Theory and Practice
Theory and Practice
Description
Key Features
- Provides a fully revised and updated edition with key insights on all current media types for plant production
- Explains the latest information on water and nutrient availability
- Includes rootstock/scion relationships in substrates
- Contains a chapter focusing specifically on hydroponics
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Significance of Soilless Culture in Agriculture
2. Functions of the Root System
3. Physical Characteristics of Soilless Media
4. Irrigation in Soilless Production
5. Technical Equipment in Soilless Production Systems
6. Chemical Characteristics of Soilless Media
7. Analytical Methods Used in Soilless Cultivation
8. Nutrition of Substrate=Grown Plants
9. Fertigation Management and Crops Response to Solution Recycling in Semi-Closed Greenhouses
10. Pathogen Detection and Management Strategies in Soilless Plant Growing Systems
11. Organic Soilless Media Components
12. Inorganic and Synthetic Organic Componenets of Soilless Culture and Potting Mixes
13. Growing Plants in Soilless Culture: Operational Conclusions
14. Hypdroponics
Product details
- No. of pages: 712
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: March 30, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780444636973
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444636966
About the Editors
Michael Raviv
Affiliations and Expertise
Heiner Lieth
Affiliations and Expertise
Asher Bar-Tal
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Christos S. Fri Jun 24 2022
Soilless Culture: Theory and Practice
I had bought the previous edition and I think it is a book that gives the necessary information for the researcher but also for the farmer.