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The health of any ornamental crop is a direct function of the nutritional status of the plant. Disease susceptibility or resistance is often governed by the speed in which the plants can directly react to infection by plant pathogen and/or indirectly by their ability to tolerate predisposing stresses such as drought.
Information is presented herein on the role of essential minerals N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, Cl, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, B, Mo, and Ni along with beneficial elements Si and Al for their effects on suppressing diseases in ornamental crops.
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Datnoff, L.E., Elmer, W.H. (2016). Mineral Nutrition and Florists’ Crops Diseases. In: McGovern, R., Elmer, W. (eds) Handbook of Florists' Crops Diseases. Handbook of Plant Disease Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32374-9_10-1
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