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International Symposium on Growing Media 2007

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819

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9789066052277

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0567-7572

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Date

March 2009

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463

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1. GROWING MEDIA DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UK

S. Holmes

2. THE USE OF GREEN COMPOST IN THE PRODUCTION OF CONTAINER NURSERY STOCK IN THE UK: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

A. Rainbow

3. GROWING MEDIUM CONSTITUENTS USED IN THE EU

G. Schmilewski

4. TRENDS IN ROOTING MEDIA IN DUTCH HORTICULTURE DURING THE PERIOD 2001-2005: THE NEW GROWING MEDIA PROJECT

C. Blok | J.B.G.M. Verhagen

5. ADVANCES IN THE STANDARDISATION OF ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES: THE WORK OF CEN TC 223, WG4

A. Baumgarten

6. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GROWING MEDIA: STATE OF THE ART AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

J.-C. Michel

7. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USE OF INORGANIC MEDIA FOR GREENHOUSE VEGETABLE AND FLOWER PRODUCTION

D. Savvas

8. DETERMINATION OF MICRO NUTRIENTS IN SUBSTRATES BY WATER EXTRACTION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE ANALYTICAL DATA

C. Sonneveld | W. Voogt

9. PROSPECTS FOR BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF GROWING MEDIA

B.W. Alsanius | W. Wohanka

10. PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES AND BACKGROUND RESEARCH ON THE USE OF COMPOSTED MATERIALS IN GROWING MEDIA FOR THE UK MARKET

M. Prasad | W.R. Carlile

11. RECENT ADVANCES IN SOIL-BORNE DISEASE CONTROL USING SUPPRESSIVE MEDIA

M. Raviv

12. STABILITY OF GROWING MEDIA FROM A PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

J.B.G.M. Verhagen

13. GROWING MEDIA FOR THE NURSERY INDUSTRY: USE OF AMENDMENTS IN TRADITIONAL BARK-BASED MEDIA

S.L. Warren | T.E. Bilderback | J.S. Owen, Jr.

14. RESPONSE OF CUCUMBERS GROWN ON TWO SUBSTRATES IN AN OPEN SOILLESS SYSTEM TO INOCULATION WITH MICROORGANISMS

M.E. Abdelaziz | R. Pokluda

15. 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

16. ENHANCED ANTIMICROBIAL METABOLITE FORMATION BY THE MICROFLORA INHABITING NUTRIENT SOLUTIONS IN CLOSED GROWING SYSTEMS

B.W. Alsanius | V. Jung | T. Brand

17. 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

18. INFLUENCE OF STORAGE ON CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT PEATS

M.Z. Beckmann-Cavalcante | K.F. Lopes-Pivetta | E. Meinken | R. Roeber

19. CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT PEATS DEPENDING ON ORIGIN AND ANALYTICAL METHOD

M.Z. Beckmann-Cavalcante | K.F. Lopes-Pivetta | E. Meinken | R. Roeber

20. SEASONAL VARIATIONS OF BIOTIC FACTORS IN CLOSED COMMERCIAL GREENHOUSE GROWING SYSTEMS WITH TOMATO

K.-J. Bergstrand | S. Khalil | M. Hultberg | B.W. Alsanius

21. IMPROVING CONTROL OF DUPONCHELIA FOVEALIS (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE) BY ROOTING MEDIA RELATED STRATEGIES

C. Blok | G.J. Messelink

22. 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

23. A MIXING MODEL TO PREDICT SELECTED PARAMETERS IN MIXING CONTAINER MEDIA

C. Blok | J. Withagen

24. GROWTH AND YIELD OF TOMATO GROWN ON REUSED ROCKWOOL SLABS

25. 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

26. BEHAVIOUR OF NATURAL WETTING AGENTS BY PLANT EXTRACTS ON PEAT-BASED SUBSTRATES

C. Cattivello

27. SUBSTRATES WITH MINERAL COMPONENTS FOR GROWING WOODY PLANTS

M. Dubský | F. Srámek

28. RESIDUAL LIME AND PH BUFFERING IN CONTAINER SUBSTRATES

P.R. Fisher | Huang Jinsheng | W.E. Horner | C.N. Johnson | W.R. Argo

29. DEVELOPMENT OF AN OXYGEN MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL IN HORTICULTURE

W. Holtman | B. Oppedijk | M. Vennik | A. Draaijer

30. PINE TREE SUBSTRATE: AN ALTERNATIVE AND RENEWABLE SUBSTRATE FOR HORTICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION

B.E. Jackson | R.D. Wright

31. NURSERY GROWERS’ EXPERIENCES OF GROWING MEDIA – A FINNISH CASE STUDY

S. Kukkonen | M. Vestberg

32. UTILIZATION OF RE-PROCESSED ANAEROBICALLY DIGESTED FIBER FROM DAIRY MANURE AS A CONTAINER MEDIA SUBSTRATE

C.B. MacConnell | H.P. Collins

33. WATER REPELLENCY OF ORGANIC GROWING MEDIA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ON HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOURS OF THE WATER RETENTION CURVE

R. Naasz | J.-C. Michel | S. Charpentier

34. 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

35. EVALUATION OF THREE METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF STABILITY OF COMPOSTED MATERIAL DESTINED FOR USE AS A COMPONENT OF GROWING MEDIA

D. NiChualain | M. Prasad

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. HORTICULTURAL PEAT RAW MATERIAL AND ITS PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN FINLAND, SWEDEN AND THE BALTIC STATES

P. Picken | O. Reinikainen

41. CULTIVATION OF DIFFERENT EGGPLANT (SOLANUM MELONGENA L.) GENOTYPES IN SUBSTRATE CULTURE AND NFT-SYSTEM

I. Pinker | M.H. Böhme

42. COMPOSTING OLIVE MILL WASTE AND ASSESSMENT OF ITS HORTICULTURAL VALUE

M. Raviv | S. Medina | A. Krassnovsky | Y. Laor | I. Aviani

43. COMPOSTS FROM RESIDUES OF ANAEROBICALLY TREATED RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND THEIR SUITABILITY IN GROWING MEDIA

H.-J. Schmitz | E. Meinken

44. USE OF COMPOST MADE FROM LIVESTOCK MANURE AS AN ORGANIC SUBSTRATE FOR CUCUMBER (CUCUMIS SATIVUS L.) GROWN IN GREENHOUSE

F.-G. Schroeder | H. Sell

45. IMPACT OF SOLUTION-NH₄ CONCENTRATIONS ON SOILLESS-GROWN PLANTS: BENEFITS AND CONSTRAINTS

A. Silber

46. 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

47. PEAT SUBSTRATES AMENDED WITH COMPOSTED BARK OR WITH COMPOST

F. Srámek | M. Dubský

48. DEVELOPMENT AND STORAGE PROPERTIES OF A GREEN COMPOST-BASED PEAT-FREE GROWING MEDIUM: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

V. Surrage | W.R. (Bill) Carlile

49. MICROBIOLOGICALLY IMPROVED PEAT-BASED MEDIA FOR NURSERY PRODUCTION BY ADDITION OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI

M. Vestberg | S. Kukkonen

50. THE EFFECTS OF FE-CHELATE TYPE AND PH ON SUBSTRATE GROWN ROSES

W. Voogt | C. Sonneveld

51. NITROGEN BALANCE OF THREE ORGANIC POTTING-MEDIA IN RELATION TO THE ADDED CARBON SOURCES

A. Amde Yosef | H. Bohne

52. APPLICATION OF ISO 11269-1 ROOT ELONGATION BIOASSAY FOR TESTING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GROWING MEDIA

P. Zaccheo | L. Crippa | D. Orfeo

53. SEARCHING FOR RECYCLABLE OR BIODEGRADABLE GROWING MEDIA

Zheng Youbin | J. Huber | Zhang Ping | M. Dixon

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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