Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops Volume 2: Plant Mineral Nutrition and Pesticide Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dris, Ramdane (Editor), Jain, S. Mohan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Food > Biotechnology.; Nutrition.; Food Science.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.

Plants require nutrients in order to grow, develop and complete their life cycle. Mineral fertilizers, and hence the fertilizer industry, constitute one of the most imp- tant keys to the world food supplies. There is growing concern about the safety and quality of food. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen,...

Table of Contents:

• Environmental and Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Pesticides in Occupationally Exposed Subjects
• Crop Quality Under Adverse Conditions: Importance of Determining the Nutritional Status
• Phosphorus Management in French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.)
• Nutrition and Calcium Fertilization of Apple Trees
• Diagnosis, Prediction and Control of Boron Deficiency in Olive Trees
• Boron-Calcium Relationship in Biological Nitrogen Fixation under Physiological and Salt-Stressing Conditions
• Lime-Induced Iron Chlorosis in Fruit Trees
• Si in Horticultural Industry
• Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Pesticides in the General Population (Non Occupationally Exposed to Pesticides).