Plant Analysis: Research Methods

This book consists of 12 Chapters, describing the methods to analyse various nutrients in plants. The Book is devided into two Sections: General and Determination of Plant nutrients. The Section I. General, provides very elementary and basic information about the various equipments and apparatus used to determine plant nutrients and preparation of Reagents etc. Further, methods of collecting palnt samples and their digestion have been described. In Section II. Determination of Plant Nutrients, 8 Chapters describes methods of determining various plant nutrients (Carbon, Nitrogen, Phospherus, Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Magnesium, Sulphur, Micronutrients and Toxic metals).
About Author :
Prof. S.S. Narwal, is an Internationally renowned allelopathy scientist. He is the First National Fellow (Allelopahty) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi from 1995-2005. Currenlty he is the President, Indian Society of Allelopathy and the Chief Editor, Allelopathy Journal. He is also Founder of International Allelopathy Society (1994) during the II International Allelopathy Conference, New Delhi. He has authored/edited 15 Books. O.P. Sangwan is Department of Soil Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125004, India.
Contents :
Preface Allelopathy and Plant Analysis-S.S. Narwal Section I GENERAL Basics of Analytical Reagents nad Preparation of Standard Solutions Analytical Instructions Plant Samples: Collection, Processing and Storagte Digestion of Plant Samples Section II DETERMINATION PLANT NUTRIENTS Carbon Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium and Sodium Calcium and Magnesium Sulphur Micro-Nutrients Toxic Metals Subject Index