Handbook of Plant Nutrition

The Handbook of Plant Nutrition provides a readily accessible source of current and reliable information on the nutritional requirements of the most significant crops being cultivated worldwide. This handbook provides an overview of plant nutrients and beneficial elements, distinguishing the difference between the two, and explaining research approaches and diagnostic criteria currently being applied. In addition, every chapter then is dedicated to an essential macro or micronutrient or beneficial element.

Written by eminent researchers from across the world, each of the chapters:

• Offers historical information on the specific nutrient, explaining why it is either essential or a beneficial element, giving demonstration of its essentiality and functions in plants
• Explains how appearance and composition of plants can be used to assess nutritional status
• Discusses the value of soil tests for assessing nutritional status
• Recommends fertilizers that can be applied to remedy nutritional deficiencies

The chapters that cover beneficial elements also discuss the history of the elements with regard to growth and yield, and provide current information concerning their impact on growth stimulation and plant metabolism for particular plant species.

This handbook is a practical easy-to-use reference for determining, monitoring, and improving nutritional needs of plants. The graphical presentations of plant interactions with nutrients and beneficial elements, and the straight-forward explanations of how nutrient deficiencies arise are especially useful to those seeking knowledge of plant nutrition. Growers, agricultural consultants, agronomists, and plant scientists will find this book to be valuable.