Controlled Environment Horticulture

Improving Quality of Vegetables and Medicinal Plants
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-23199-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

An understanding of crop physiology and ecophysiology enables the horticulturist to manipulate a plant’s metabolism towards the production of compounds that are beneficial for human health when that plant is part of the diet or the source of phytopharmaceutical compounds.

The first part of the book introduces the concept of Controlled Environment Horticulture as a horticultural production technique used to maximize yields via the optimization of access to growing factors. The second part describes the use of this production technique in order to induce stress responses in the plant via the modulation of these growing factors and, importantly, the way that this manipulation induces defence reactions in the plant resulting in the production of compounds beneficial for human health. The third part provides guidance for the implementation of this knowledge in horticultural production. 

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geilfus, Christoph-Martin

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenreproduktion, Verbreitung, Genetik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenphysiologie, Photosynthese
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Nutzpflanzen: Biologie, Genetik, Pflanzenzüchtung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 – Introduction

1.      Introduction

2.      Protected Cropping in Horticulture 3.      Plant Secondary Compounds 4.      Hydroponic Systems in Horticulture Part 2 – Controllable Production Factors in Horticulture

5.      Light

6.      Nutrient deficiencies

7.      Salt stress 8.      Drought Stress 9.      Thermal Stress 10.  Wounding 11.  Mycorrhiza 12.  Microbial and Plant-Based Biostimulants 13.  Mineral Biofortification 14.  CO Enrichment 15.  Hormones 16.  Intercropping Part 3 – Exercise

17.  Acrylamide Concentrations of Deep-fried Potatoes

18.  Enrichment of Anthocyanin in Pak Choi

19.  Improving Flavor of Tomatoes

20.  Biofortification of Carrots

21.  Enrichment of Flavonoids in Lettuce

22.  Effect of Germination Substrates on Tomato Plants

Über Autor(innen)

Christoph-Martin Geilfus, horticulturist and agronomist, born in 1983, studied Agriculture and Agrobiotechnology in Giessen, Germany. He received a doctorate and habilitated in Plant Nutrition in Kiel, Germany. After working as a visiting professor in Leuven, Belgium, he was appointed as Professor for Controlled Environment Horticulture at Berlin, Germany. His research interests include horticulture, the mineral nutrition of crops, apoplastic stress signalling and guard cell biology.