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Xiaofei Tang, Yonghui Li, Mengying Fang, Wei Li, Yong Hong and Yucheng Li
To address the problems of inadequate water and fertilizer retention performance of the substrate, which results in the waste of water and fertilizer resources and then contributes to existing agricultural non-point source pollution, this study selected ...
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Fabiola Stockmans De Nardi, Thomas dos Santos Trentin, Nicolas dos Santos Trentin, Rosiani Castoldi da Costa, Eunice Oliveira Calvete, Pedro Palencia and José Luís Trevizan Chiomento
Among the bio-tools that contribute to making the strawberry production system more sustainable are arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which can be used as biofertilizers. Thus, five doses of phosphorus (P) applied to plants with AMF and a control (100%...
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Anna Sobczak, Ewelina Pióro-Jabrucka, Janina Gajc-Wolska and Katarzyna Kowalczyk
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of spraying plants with 0.03% salicylic acid (SA), 0.7% calcium nitrate (Ca), and 0.03% salicylic acid together with 0.7% calcium nitrate (SA + Ca) on plant growth, yield, and fruit quality of peppers ...
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Mariarosaria Sicignano, Luisa del Piano, Luigi Morra, Tommaso Enotrio, Salvatore Baiano, Antonio Salluzzo, Antonio Merola and Francesco Raimo
The use of peat, the standard substrate used for soilless cultivation of horticultural crops, is becoming of increasing concern as peat is a non-renewable resource and its extraction can degrade wetland ecosystems, creating a strong environmental impact....
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Amalia García-Valero, José Alberto Acosta, Ángel Faz, María Dolores Gómez-López, Dora María Carmona, Martire Angélica Terrero, Oumaima El Bied and Silvia Martínez-Martínez
The main objective of this study was to analyze the efficiency of CWs for purifying swine wastewater in order to reduce its pollutant load. The system included a pretreatment module (raw swine wastewater tank, phase separator, and settlement tank), and t...
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Qingsong Zhao, Jingjing Dong, Zhiyong Yan, Ling Xu and Ake Liu
The use of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) residue as a crop culture substrate has unique advantages in alleviating the obstacles associated with continuous monocropping, such as increasing production, improving quality and alleviating pests and disea...
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Cuong Ngoc Nguyen, Hing-Wah Chau and Nitin Muttil
Green roofs (GRs) have been researched for decades, yet their implementation remains constrained due to several reasons, including their limited appeal to policymakers and the public. Biochar, a carbon-rich material, has been recently introduced as an am...
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Damon E. Abdi, Jennifer Blanchard, Jeb S. Fields, Leticia Santos, Lily Beasley and Jeffrey Beasley
Short-cycle horticulture crops often rely on fertigation to provide immediately available nutrients. This practice poses an environmental threat when nutrients, particularly phosphorus, leach from containers and enter waterways. One method that could be ...
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Wenping Liu, Malgorzata Muzolf-Panek and Tomasz Kleiber
The aim of our study was to determine the effect of various nitrogen sources (NH4NO3 (N, 34%), Ca(NO3)2 (N, 15.5%; Ca, 18%), Mg(NO3)2 (N, 11%; Mg, 12%), NaNO3 (N, 15%; Na, 25%) and urea (N, 46%)) and increasing the intensity of N nutrition with these fer...
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Jeb S. Fields, James S. Owen, Jr., Alexa Lamm, James Altland, Brian Jackson, Lorence Oki, Jayesh B. Samtani, Youbin Zheng and Kristopher S. Criscione
Many specialty crop growers are transitioning high-value crops from in-ground production to soilless culture due to the diminishing availability of fumigants, increasing pest pressure, extreme weather, and the need for flexible production practices. The ...
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