10316: Potential of different Composts to improve Soil Fertility and Plant Health

Fuchs, J.G.; Baier, U.; Berner, A.; Mayer, J.; Tamm, L. and Schleiss, K. (2006) Potential of different Composts to improve Soil Fertility and Plant Health, in Kraft, Eckhard; Bidlingmaier, Werner; de Bartoldi, Marco; Diaz, Luis F. and Barth, Josef, Eds. ORBIT 2006 : Biological Waste Management. From Local to Global; Proceedings of the International Conference ORBIT 2006, chapter Part 2, page pp. 507-517. Verlag ORBIT e.V., Weimar.

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Summary

Composts can influence soil fertility and plant health. These influences can be positive or negative, depending of the quality of the composts. Some practitioners already make use of the positive effects on plant health. For example, they use composts to protect their plants against soil borne diseases in substrate, or to detoxify and reactivate soil after steaming. In order to estimate the potential of Swiss composts to influence soil fertility and plant health positively, we analyzed one hundred composts representative of the different composting systems and qualities available on the market.

Document Language:	English
Keywords:	Pflanzenschutz, Pflanzenkrankheiten, Interaktion Boden und Pflanzenkrankheiten, Positive Kompostqualität, composts, soil fertility, plant health
Subject Areas:	Crop husbandry > Crop health, quality, protection Soil > Soil quality Crop husbandry > Composting and manuring
Research affiliation:	Switzerland > FiBL > Pathology
Total budget (Euro):	0
Orgprints ID Number:	10316
Contact:	Fuchs, Dr. Jacques G.
Deposited On:	08 January 2007
EPrint Type:	Book chapter
Published?:	Published
Peer Review Status:	Not peer-reviewed
Related Links:	http://www.fibl.org/forschung/phytopathologie/index.php

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