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Summer Annual Green Manures: Plant and Soil Nutrient Returns for Fresh Market Lettuce Production

10/26/00


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Table of Contents

  1. Summer Annual Green Manures: Plant and Soil Nutrient Returns for Fresh Market Lettuce Production

  2. 30th Anniversary of Earth Day

  3. Reducing Non-Renewable Energy Reliance

  4. Recycling Soil Nutrients

  5. Benefits of Green Manures

  6. Leguminous Green Manures

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  8. Green Manure Practices for the Southeastern US

  9. Suitability of Summer Annual Green Manure Practices

  10. Objectives

  11. Summer Annual Green Manure Species

  12. Summer Annual Green Manure Species

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  14. Treatments

  15. Methods

  16. Methods

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  19. Methods

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  22. Methods

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  26. Methods

  27. Statistical Analysis

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  31. Nitrogen mineralization rates due to environment and cover crop factors, determined from available soil NO3-N

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  33. Phosphorus mineralization rates due to environment and cover crop factors, determined from available soil P

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  35. Potassium mineralization rates due to environment and cover crop factors, determined from available soil K

  36. Contents of cover crop tissues, soil mineralization and available soil P and K to emphasize soil mineralization rates and soil available P and K in excess of amounts provided by cover crop tissues

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  40. Summary

  41. Factors other than N contributions associated with lettuce yield increase

  42. Economics

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Author: Linda Alexander

Email: lalxndr@clemson.edu

Home Page: http://www.clemson.edu/hort/


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