creators_name: Fuchs, J.G.
creators_name: Baier, U.
creators_name: Berner, A.
creators_name: Mayer, J.
creators_name: Tamm, L.
creators_name: Schleiss, K.
editors_name: Kraft, Eckhard
editors_name: Bidlingmaier, Werner
editors_name: de Bartoldi, Marco
editors_name: Diaz, Luis F.
editors_name: Barth, Josef
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2007-01-08
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:35:31
metadata_visibility: show
title: Potential of different Composts to improve Soil Fertility and Plant Health
ispublished: pub
subjects: 8planthealth
subjects: 1soilqual
subjects: 3compost
full_text_status: public
keywords: Pflanzenschutz, Pflanzenkrankheiten, Interaktion Boden und Pflanzenkrankheiten, Positive Kompostqualität, composts, soil fertility, plant health
abstract: 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.
date: 2006
date_type: published
publication: ORBIT 2006 : Biological Waste Management. From Local to Global; Proceedings of the International Conference ORBIT 2006
publisher: Verlag ORBIT e.V., Weimar
pagerange: 507-517
refereed: never
citation: 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.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/10316/1/fuchs-etal-2006-orbit_conference.pdf