Agricultural and Food Science (Sep 1974)

Relationship between soil nurient concentration and plant nutrient status

  • Viljo Puustjärvi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 46, no. 3

Abstract

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Foliar diagnosis as a method for assessing the nutrient status in a grownig medium seems to be useful. It gives the relationship between the available soil nutrient concentration and the plant nutritional status. The proportionality factor (k). a parameter in the given logarithmic equation, is called the efficiency coefficient. It indicates the ability of a plant to absorb nutrients from its growing medium.