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Potassium : improvement of quality in fruits and vegetables through hydroponic nutrient management / edited by Md Asaduzzaman, Toshiki Asao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Md Asaduzzaman
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fruit.
- Hydroponics.
- Potassium fertilizers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (108 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Potassium
- Place of Publication:
- IntechOpen 2018
- London, England : IntechOpen, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book Potassium - Improvement of Quality in Fruits and Vegetables Through Hydroponic Nutrient Management provides useful information regarding potassium nutrition management in hydroponic cultivation, which will help in producing quality horticultural crops. The first few chapters describe the role of potassium nutrition in plants, its interaction with other nutrients, its source fertilizers, the role in postharvest produce qualities, and human nutrition. Potassium fertilizer management, its metabolism in plants, and cultivation techniques of fruits and leafy vegetables are also included in the middle section. The final chapter illustrates the software development for the calculation of hydroponic nutrients including potassium for easy management of cultural solution. As a whole, this book covers several major aspects on the topic for making it a complete and useful resource.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 14, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 1-83881-334-9
- 1-78923-127-2
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