NutritionCh ANDOR All fieldsTitleAbstractKeywordsAuthorsAffiliationsDoiFull TextReferences Open AccessArticle by Bradley Ridoutt 1,2,*, Danielle Baird 3and Gilly A. Hendrie 3 1 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Agriculture and Food, Clayton, VIC 3169, Australia...
Plants need to be protected against pests and diseases, so as to assure an adequate production, and therefore to contribute to food security. However, some of the used pesticides are harmful compounds, and thus the right balance between the need to incre
For optimal crop N management that ensures high production, while minimizing N losses to the environment, N fertilizer should be applied to match crop demand and to take into account N supplied by other sources, such as soil mineral N present at planting, and N mineralized from soil organic ...
A surface cover of plastic mulch is deployed on the beds prior to establishment of the vegetable crops (plasticulture), bare inter-rows are maintained between vegetable beds and industry standard fertilizer application strategies (both pre-planting and via trickle irrigation in crop, and detailed in...