Plant Nutrition of Greenhouse Crops

Greenhouse cultivation is noted for its high uptake of minerals, consistent climatic conditions, exclusion of natural precipitation and control of salt accumulation. Acknowledging that plant nutrition in greenhouse cultivation differs in many essentials f

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Cees Sonneveld · Wim Voogt

Plant Nutrition of Greenhouse Crops

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Dr. Cees Sonneveld Tolhuislaan 35 3862 WK Nijkerk Netherlands

Ing. Wim Voogt Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture Violierenweg 1 2665 MV Bleiswijk Netherlands

ISBN 978-90-481-2531-9 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2532-6 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2532-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009926976 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

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1 Greenhouse Horticulture . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Fertilization in Greenhouse Industry . . . 1.3 Nutrient Uptake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Fertilization Programmes . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Development of Greenhouse Horticulture References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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2 Fertilizers and Soil Improvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.1 N fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.2 P fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.3 K fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.4 Mg fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.5 Ca fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.6 Micro Nutrients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.7 Si fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.8 Other Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.9 Compound Fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.10 Slow Release Fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.11 Organic Fertilizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Soil Improvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Organic Matter and Physical Characteristics of Greenhouse Soils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.2 Soil Improvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.3 Contamination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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