E-mail Newsletter November 2013

A consortium of nine research partners is developing a fertigation-on-demand system. The system has a soil nutrient sensor system for the combined measurement of ammonium, nitrate, potassium and phosphate. Read more about this system in the upcoming issue of the Plant nutrition courier.

Sulphur nutrition protects solanaceous crops against the soilborne fungal disease caused by Verticillium dahliae. Plant nutrition courier reports about this finding in the upcoming issue.

Silicon supply reduces insect damage in chrysanthemum, according to Korean researchers. In this issue also information about silicon-mediated alleviation of iron deficiency in cucumber.

● No active manganese threshold needed for clay additives
● Low-cost nitrate production process
● New zinc foliar fertiliser
● Nutrient seed priming improves maize seedling growth in cold spring
● Crop reflectance suitable to determine sidedress N in potato

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