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Plant nutrition and fertilizing.

Christopher Michael Menzel

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This chapter on longan and litchi (Litchi chinensis) covers the following: effects of soil type, soil pH, salinity and mycorrhizas on fertilizer requirement; factors affecting leaf composition; leaf and soil analyses, and orchard surveys for fertilizer requirement determination; N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Zn, Fe, Cu, B and Mn nutrition (concentration and uptake, effects on productivity, and deficiency symptoms); fertilizer programme for young orchards in Australia; and fertigation.

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Key concepts: Fertigation, Fertilizer, Orchard, Agronomy, Salinity, Horticulture, Biology, Ecology