title: Potential of different Composts to improve Soil Fertility and Plant Health
creator: Fuchs, J.G.
creator: Baier, U.
creator: Berner, A.
creator: Mayer, J.
creator: Tamm, L.
creator: Schleiss, K.
subject: Crop health, quality, protection
subject:  Soil quality
subject:  Composting and manuring
description: 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.
publisher: Verlag ORBIT e.V., Weimar
contributor: Kraft, Eckhard
contributor: Bidlingmaier, Werner
contributor: de Bartoldi, Marco
contributor: Diaz, Luis F.
contributor: Barth, Josef
date: 2006
type: Book chapter
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/10316/1/fuchs-etal-2006-orbit_conference.pdf
identifier: 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, Verlag ORBIT e.V., Weimar, chapter Part 2, pp. 507-517.
relation: http://orgprints.org/10316/