Handbook of Plant Nutrition pptx

[...]... who are interested in plant nutrition Each of the chapters dealing with plant nutrients starts with historical information of each nutrient, including the demonstration of essentiality and functions in plants Each of these chapters will include diagnosis of the nutritional status of plants through assessments of plant appearance and composition Tabulated data will help correlate plant appearance and... Deficiency symptoms are only one of several diagnostic criteria that can be used to assess the nutritional status of plants Plant analysis, biological tests, soil analysis, and application of fertilizers containing the nutrient in question are additional tools used in diagnosis of the status of plant nutrition 1.2.2 PLANT ANALYSIS Plant analysis as a means of understanding plant physiology perhaps started... Much interest in plant nutrition lies in the development and use of diagnostic techniques for assessment of the status of plants with respect to plant nutrients and beneficial elements Soil testing is a common approach to assessments of soil fertility and plant nutrition With correlation to plant growth, development, and yield, soil testing indicates the capacity of soils to supply plant nutrients and... suggests appropriate corrective measures Plant analysis, used in conjunction with plant symptoms and soil testing, is another common tool for assessment of the nutritional status of plants This handbook covers principles of plant nutrition from a historical standpoint to current knowledge of the requirements of crops for certain elements and the beneficial effects of others Its layout owes much to Homer... composition with regard to nutritional needs A discussion of the value of soil tests for assessment of the nutritional status of plants will be provided in each chapter Each chapter will conclude with fertilizers that can be applied to remedy nutritional deficiencies in plants Chapters concerning beneficial elements will discuss the history of the relation of the beneficial effects of these elements to crop... Barker Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts Elke Bloem Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL) Braunschweig, Germany Patrick H Brown Department of Plant Sciences University of California Davis, California Gretchen M Bryson Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences University of Massachusetts... studied plant nutrition with goals of understanding the acquisition, accumulation, transport, and functions of chemical elements in plants From these studies, much information has been obtained about the growth and composition of plants in response to soilborne elements and to fertilization of crops in the soil or in soil-less media, as in hydroponic culture of plants A compilation of elements known as plant. .. sample preparation prior to analysis, along with methods of extracting nutrients for analysis and methods of analysis of plant tissues A handbook edited by Kalra (36) also addresses sampling and analysis of plant tissues 1.2.4 TISSUE TESTING Plant tissue testing is a technique for rapid determination of the nutritional status of a crop and is often conducted on the field sites where crops are grown... contaminated sites through the use of metalaccumulating plants (99,100) Research interests have focused on identifying plants that will accumulate metals and on methods of enhancing accumulation of metals in plants (101–103) Another suggested use of knowledge about the uptake of mineral elements by plants is in the identification of geographical origin of foodstuffs Analysis of 18 elements in potato tubers... develop Deficiency symptoms can occur at any stage of growth of a plant The most typical symptoms are those that appear early in the cycle of deficiency Early diagnosis of deficiencies may also allow CRC_DK2972_Ch001.qxd 6/30/2006 12:48 PM 8 Page 8 Handbook of Plant Nutrition FIGURE 1.5 Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var capitata L.) plants showing symptoms of stunting Left: stunting and dark green color . assessment of the nutritional status of plants. This handbook covers principles of plant nutrition from a historical standpoint to current knowl- edge of the. essentiality and functions in plants. Each of these chapters will include diagnosis of the nutritional status of plants through assessments of plant appearance and