Author: Lynn P. Griffith
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This practical reference provides professional growers with the tools necessary to make in-the-field identifications of tropical foliage disorders. Listing more than 70 varieties of foliage plants, this guide covers a broad range of disorders, including pest damage, disease, phytotoxicity, and environmental problems. Each disorder listing includes a visual identification, brief description of damage, and solution for treatment, including ecologically benign applications whenever possible. Timely recognition can save a crop or landscape, and this guide is ideal for foliage growers, interior landscapers, educators, and plant retailers.
Tropical Foliage Disorders
Author: Lynn P. Griffith
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This practical reference provides professional growers with the tools necessary to make in-the-field identifications of tropical foliage disorders. Listing more than 70 varieties of foliage plants, this guide covers a broad range of disorders, including pest damage, disease, phytotoxicity, and environmental problems. Each disorder listing includes a visual identification, brief description of damage, and solution for treatment, including ecologically benign applications whenever possible. Timely recognition can save a crop or landscape, and this guide is ideal for foliage growers, interior landscapers, educators, and plant retailers.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This practical reference provides professional growers with the tools necessary to make in-the-field identifications of tropical foliage disorders. Listing more than 70 varieties of foliage plants, this guide covers a broad range of disorders, including pest damage, disease, phytotoxicity, and environmental problems. Each disorder listing includes a visual identification, brief description of damage, and solution for treatment, including ecologically benign applications whenever possible. Timely recognition can save a crop or landscape, and this guide is ideal for foliage growers, interior landscapers, educators, and plant retailers.
The Diseases of Tropical Plants
Author: Melville Thurston Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Tropical Plant Diseases
Author: H. David Thurston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book incorporates several new developments since the publication of the first edition. Use this reference as a guide to the identification and control of tropical plant diseases. Includes special emphasis on molecular biology, genetic engineering, and integrated pest management. Includes new coverage of: Rice, Maize, Sorghum, Root Crops, Cassava, Sweet Potatoes, Legumes, Soybeans, Peanuts, Bananas, Coffee, Fruit and Nuts, Sugarcane, Vegetables, Cotton, Spices, Tobacco, among others.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book incorporates several new developments since the publication of the first edition. Use this reference as a guide to the identification and control of tropical plant diseases. Includes special emphasis on molecular biology, genetic engineering, and integrated pest management. Includes new coverage of: Rice, Maize, Sorghum, Root Crops, Cassava, Sweet Potatoes, Legumes, Soybeans, Peanuts, Bananas, Coffee, Fruit and Nuts, Sugarcane, Vegetables, Cotton, Spices, Tobacco, among others.
Tropical Foliage Plants
Author: Lynn P. Griffith
Publisher: Ball Publishing
ISBN: 9781883052515
Category : Foliage plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Previously illustrated with black and white photographs, this reference now provides professionals with a colorful guide to the production of commercial foliage crops. Featuring updated and expanded information, including cultural changes, new technological advances, and eight new foliage crops, the guide now covers more than 70 species of foliage appropriate to commercial environments--anthuriums, bromeliads, ferns, bamboos, birds-of-paradise, and African violets. In addition to exploring each plant's natural habitat, varieties, and propagation, this reference also counsels growers on uses, nutrition, pests, disorders, interior care, and the most common problems affecting these types of foliage. Tables also list leaf analysis rating standards for nutrients for many of the crops discussed.
Publisher: Ball Publishing
ISBN: 9781883052515
Category : Foliage plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Previously illustrated with black and white photographs, this reference now provides professionals with a colorful guide to the production of commercial foliage crops. Featuring updated and expanded information, including cultural changes, new technological advances, and eight new foliage crops, the guide now covers more than 70 species of foliage appropriate to commercial environments--anthuriums, bromeliads, ferns, bamboos, birds-of-paradise, and African violets. In addition to exploring each plant's natural habitat, varieties, and propagation, this reference also counsels growers on uses, nutrition, pests, disorders, interior care, and the most common problems affecting these types of foliage. Tables also list leaf analysis rating standards for nutrients for many of the crops discussed.
Maize Diseases
Author: Dan Jeffers
Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9706481095
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9706481095
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mineral nutrition of tropical plants
Author: Renato de Mello Prado
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030712621
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This textbook aims to describe the role of minerals in plant life cycle; how these nutrients are absorbed, distributed, stored; what functions each mineral plays and the disorders that their excess or absence may cause. From an agronomic perspective, such knowledge is key to boost crop production and improve its quality, and it also helps understand how to better manage fertilizers and prevent environmental issues. The book has focus on tropical agriculture and its specific demands, providing examples of major crops (such as sugarcane, soybeans, coffee etc), silviculture and pasture species.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030712621
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This textbook aims to describe the role of minerals in plant life cycle; how these nutrients are absorbed, distributed, stored; what functions each mineral plays and the disorders that their excess or absence may cause. From an agronomic perspective, such knowledge is key to boost crop production and improve its quality, and it also helps understand how to better manage fertilizers and prevent environmental issues. The book has focus on tropical agriculture and its specific demands, providing examples of major crops (such as sugarcane, soybeans, coffee etc), silviculture and pasture species.
Diseases and Disorders of Pines in the Tropics
Author: M. H. Ivory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pine
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pine
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Horticultural Reviews, Volume 31
Author: Jules Janick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470650877
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in the horticultural sciences. The emphasis is on applied topics including the production of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamental plants of commercial importance. Published in two volumes, twice each year, these articles perform the valuable function of collecting, comparing, and contrasting the primary journal literature in order to form an overview of the topic. This detailed analysis bridges the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of horticultural scientists.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470650877
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in the horticultural sciences. The emphasis is on applied topics including the production of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamental plants of commercial importance. Published in two volumes, twice each year, these articles perform the valuable function of collecting, comparing, and contrasting the primary journal literature in order to form an overview of the topic. This detailed analysis bridges the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of horticultural scientists.
The Manual of Interior Plantscaping
Author: Kathy Fediw
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604695579
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Set the mood for a space with interior plantscaping. In The Manual of Interior Plantscaping, industry expert Kathy Fediw describes how to design different types of plantscapes from potted plants and terrariums to atriums and green walls. Incorporating horticulture, interior design, and landscape architecture, this book includes design principles and guidelines for maintaining a healthy, beautiful planted space.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604695579
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Set the mood for a space with interior plantscaping. In The Manual of Interior Plantscaping, industry expert Kathy Fediw describes how to design different types of plantscapes from potted plants and terrariums to atriums and green walls. Incorporating horticulture, interior design, and landscape architecture, this book includes design principles and guidelines for maintaining a healthy, beautiful planted space.
Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries
Author: Steve H. Dreistadt
Publisher: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
ISBN: 9781879906464
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this book indispensable to growers, farm advisors, IPM scouts, pesticide applicators, pest control advisors, and students. A complete sourcebook for bulbs, cut flowers, potted flowering plants, foliage plants, bedding plants, ornamental trees, and shrubs as grown in the field, greenhouse, and nursery.--COVER.
Publisher: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
ISBN: 9781879906464
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this book indispensable to growers, farm advisors, IPM scouts, pesticide applicators, pest control advisors, and students. A complete sourcebook for bulbs, cut flowers, potted flowering plants, foliage plants, bedding plants, ornamental trees, and shrubs as grown in the field, greenhouse, and nursery.--COVER.