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ISHS Acta Horticulturae 819

International Symposium on Growing Media 2007

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Conveners   W.R. Carlile, A. Coules, V. Surrage 
Editors   W.R. Carlile, A. Coules 
Publication
date  
31 March 2009 
ISBN   978-90-66052-27-7 
ISSN   0567-7572 
Number of articles   56 
Volumes  
Place   Nottingham, United Kingdom 
Online articles:
GROWING MEDIA DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UK (S. Holmes)
THE USE OF GREEN COMPOST IN THE PRODUCTION OF CONTAINER NURSERY STOCK IN THE UK: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (A. Rainbow)
GROWING MEDIUM CONSTITUENTS USED IN THE EU (G. Schmilewski)
TRENDS IN ROOTING MEDIA IN DUTCH HORTICULTURE DURING THE PERIOD 2001-2005: THE NEW GROWING MEDIA PROJECT (C. Blok, J.B.G.M. Verhagen)
ADVANCES IN THE STANDARDISATION OF ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES: THE WORK OF CEN TC 223, WG4 (A. Baumgarten)
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GROWING MEDIA: STATE OF THE ART AND FUTURE CHALLENGES (J.-C. Michel)
MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USE OF INORGANIC MEDIA FOR GREENHOUSE VEGETABLE AND FLOWER PRODUCTION (D. Savvas)
DETERMINATION OF MICRO NUTRIENTS IN SUBSTRATES BY WATER EXTRACTION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE ANALYTICAL DATA (C. Sonneveld, W. Voogt)
PROSPECTS FOR BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF GROWING MEDIA (B.W. Alsanius, W. Wohanka)
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES AND BACKGROUND RESEARCH ON THE USE OF COMPOSTED MATERIALS IN GROWING MEDIA FOR THE UK MARKET (M. Prasad, W.R. Carlile)
RECENT ADVANCES IN SOIL-BORNE DISEASE CONTROL USING SUPPRESSIVE MEDIA (M. Raviv)
STABILITY OF GROWING MEDIA FROM A PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE (J.B.G.M. Verhagen)
GROWING MEDIA FOR THE NURSERY INDUSTRY: USE OF AMENDMENTS IN TRADITIONAL BARK-BASED MEDIA (S.L. Warren, T.E. Bilderback, J.S. Owen, Jr.)
RESPONSE OF CUCUMBERS GROWN ON TWO SUBSTRATES IN AN OPEN SOILLESS SYSTEM TO INOCULATION WITH MICROORGANISMS (M.E. Abdelaziz, R. Pokluda)
MICRONUTRIENT DETERMINATION FOR SEVERAL WATER EXTRACTION METHODS OF COIR SUBSTRATE INCUBATED WITH MINERAL FERTILIZERS (M.F. Abreu, C.A. Abreu, A.M.C. Furlani, O.C. Bataglia, P.R. Furlani)
ENHANCED ANTIMICROBIAL METABOLITE FORMATION BY THE MICROFLORA INHABITING NUTRIENT SOLUTIONS IN CLOSED GROWING SYSTEMS (B.W. Alsanius, V. Jung, T. Brand)
GROWTH OF CHRYSANTHEMUM × GRANDIFLORUM IN DIFFERENT PEATS AND CHANGE OF PEAT PROPERTIES DURING CULTIVATION (M.Z. Beckmann-Cavalcante, K.F. Lopes-Pivetta, E. Meinken, R. Roeber)
INFLUENCE OF STORAGE ON CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT PEATS (M.Z. Beckmann-Cavalcante, K.F. Lopes-Pivetta, E. Meinken, R. Roeber)
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT PEATS DEPENDING ON ORIGIN AND ANALYTICAL METHOD (M.Z. Beckmann-Cavalcante, K.F. Lopes-Pivetta, E. Meinken, R. Roeber)
SEASONAL VARIATIONS OF BIOTIC FACTORS IN CLOSED COMMERCIAL GREENHOUSE GROWING SYSTEMS WITH TOMATO (K.-J. Bergstrand, S. Khalil, M. Hultberg, B.W. Alsanius)
IMPROVING CONTROL OF DUPONCHELIA FOVEALIS (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE) BY ROOTING MEDIA RELATED STRATEGIES (C. Blok, G.J. Messelink)
VALIDATION OF A NEW PHYTOTOXICITY TEST (PHYTOTOXKIT) AGAINST AN ESTABLISHED FOUR-WEEK GROWING TEST WITH PRE-GROWN PLANT PLUGS (C. Blok, M. Aguilera, E.A. Van Os)
A MIXING MODEL TO PREDICT SELECTED PARAMETERS IN MIXING CONTAINER MEDIA (C. Blok, J. Withagen)
GROWTH AND YIELD OF TOMATO GROWN ON REUSED ROCKWOOL SLABS (J. Borosić, B. Benko, B. Novak, N. Toth, I. Zutić, S. Fabek)
COMPARISON OF THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF VERMICOMPOST FROM PAPER MILL SLUDGE AND GREEN COMPOST AS SUBSTITUTES FOR PEAT-BASED POTTING MEDIA (L. Campos Mota, U. van Meeteren, C. Blok)
BEHAVIOUR OF NATURAL WETTING AGENTS BY PLANT EXTRACTS ON PEAT-BASED SUBSTRATES (C. Cattivello)
SUBSTRATES WITH MINERAL COMPONENTS FOR GROWING WOODY PLANTS (M. Dubský, F. Srámek)
RESIDUAL LIME AND PH BUFFERING IN CONTAINER SUBSTRATES (P.R. Fisher, Huang Jinsheng, W.E. Horner, C.N. Johnson, W.R. Argo)
DEVELOPMENT OF AN OXYGEN MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL IN HORTICULTURE (W. Holtman, B. Oppedijk, M. Vennik, A. Draaijer)
PINE TREE SUBSTRATE: AN ALTERNATIVE AND RENEWABLE SUBSTRATE FOR HORTICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION (B.E. Jackson, R.D. Wright)
NURSERY GROWERS' EXPERIENCES OF GROWING MEDIA - A FINNISH CASE STUDY (S. Kukkonen, M. Vestberg)
UTILIZATION OF RE-PROCESSED ANAEROBICALLY DIGESTED FIBER FROM DAIRY MANURE AS A CONTAINER MEDIA SUBSTRATE (C.B. MacConnell, H.P. Collins)
WATER REPELLENCY OF ORGANIC GROWING MEDIA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOURS OF THE WATER RETENTION CURVE (R. Naasz, J.-C. Michel, S. Charpentier)
DEVELOPMENT OF A RAPID AND ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION IN ORGANIC SUBSTRATES (M.R. Nemati, J.P. Fortin, M.C. Lussier, M.J. Prince)
EVALUATION OF THREE METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF STABILITY OF COMPOSTED MATERIAL DESTINED FOR USE AS A COMPONENT OF GROWING MEDIA (D. NiChualain, M. Prasad)
USING A MINERAL AGGREGATE TO SUPPLY PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM FOR CONTAINERIZED CROP PRODUCTION (J.S. Owen, Jr., S.L. Warren, T.E. Bilderback, J.P. Albano )
A GRAVIMETRIC APPROACH TO REAL-TIME MONITORING OF SUBSTRATE WETNESS IN CONTAINER-GROWN NURSERY CROPS (J.S. Owen, Jr., S.L. Warren, T.E. Bilderback)
EXPLORATORY DATA FOR IMPROVING FOOD SAFETY IN VIETNAM USING SOILLESS VEGETABLE PRODUCTION (S.E. Parks, S.M. Newman, L.M. Pham, H.T. Ngo, T.K. Tran)
INITIAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF SUBSTRATES IN GREENHOUSE VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA (S.E. Parks, R.J. Worrall, C.T. Low, J.A. Jarvis)
HORTICULTURAL PEAT RAW MATERIAL AND ITS PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN FINLAND, SWEDEN AND THE BALTIC STATES (P. Picken, O. Reinikainen)
CULTIVATION OF DIFFERENT EGGPLANT (SOLANUM MELONGENA L.) GENOTYPES IN SUBSTRATE CULTURE AND NFT-SYSTEM (I. Pinker, M.H. Böhme)
COMPOSTING OLIVE MILL WASTE AND ASSESSMENT OF ITS HORTICULTURAL VALUE (M. Raviv, S. Medina, A. Krassnovsky, Y. Laor, I. Aviani)
COMPOSTS FROM RESIDUES OF ANAEROBICALLY TREATED RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND THEIR SUITABILITY IN GROWING MEDIA (H.-J. Schmitz, E. Meinken)
USE OF COMPOST MADE FROM LIVESTOCK MANURE AS AN ORGANIC SUBSTRATE FOR CUCUMBER (CUCUMIS SATIVUS L.) GROWN IN GREENHOUSE (F.-G. Schroeder, H. Sell)
IMPACT OF SOLUTION-NH4 CONCENTRATIONS ON SOILLESS-GROWN PLANTS: BENEFITS AND CONSTRAINTS (A. Silber)
IMPACT OF DIFFERENT SOILLESS CULTURE SYSTEMS ON PRODUCTION AND QUALITY OF CANTALOUPE GROWN UNDER PROTECTED CULTIVATION (S.M. Singer, U.A. El-Behairy, A.F. Abou-Hadid, G. Noha, A. El-Rahman)
PEAT SUBSTRATES AMENDED WITH COMPOSTED BARK OR WITH COMPOST (F. Srámek, M. Dubský)
DEVELOPMENT AND STORAGE PROPERTIES OF A GREEN COMPOST-BASED PEAT-FREE GROWING MEDIUM: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS (V. Surrage, W.R. (Bill) Carlile)
MICROBIOLOGICALLY IMPROVED PEAT-BASED MEDIA FOR NURSERY PRODUCTION BY ADDITION OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI (M. Vestberg, S. Kukkonen)
THE EFFECTS OF FE-CHELATE TYPE AND PH ON SUBSTRATE GROWN ROSES (W. Voogt, C. Sonneveld)
NITROGEN BALANCE OF THREE ORGANIC POTTING-MEDIA IN RELATION TO THE ADDED CARBON SOURCES (A. Amde Yosef, H. Bohne)
APPLICATION OF ISO 11269-1 ROOT ELONGATION BIOASSAY FOR TESTING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GROWING MEDIA (P. Zaccheo, L. Crippa, D. Orfeo)
SEARCHING FOR RECYCLABLE OR BIODEGRADABLE GROWING MEDIA ( Zheng Youbin, J. Huber, Zhang Ping, M. Dixon)
COMPARISON OF IRRIGATION, LEACHATE AND TREE GROWTH BETWEEN SOILLESS AND COAL ASH BASED MEDIA (H. Zhu, J.M. Frantz, R. Krause, L. Chen, R.H. Zondag)
APPLICATION OF SOME SYSTEMIC PESTICIDES VIA THE ROOT SYSTEM IN SUBSTRATE GROWN CROPS UNDER CONDITIONS OF COMPLETE NUTRIENT SOLUTION RECYCLING (D. Savvas, G. Patakioutas, G. Ntatsi, G. Karras)
CHEMICAL AND CARBON-13 CROSS-POLARIZATION MAGIC-ANGLE SPINNING NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPOSTED ORGANIC WASTES (E. Eymar, Y. Tapia, I. Frutos, A. Gárate, V. Cala)
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