Advances in Soil and Plant Nutrient Management for Optimizing Horticultural Crop Yields and Soil Sustainability
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 436
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agrochemistry—investigations of soil fertility and mineral nutrition of plants; agriculture—investigations of methods, procedures of cultivation and use of biomass of second generation bioenergy crops
Interests: crop production; crops for animal nutrition; silage maize; grass production; hay; fresh biomass; grazing; grass seed production; forage quality; forage utilization; forage seed production
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optimizing horticultural crop yields requires continuous work in improving nutrient management. Horticultural crops require many essential nutrients for optimum growth, yield, and quality (such as N, P, K, Mg, S, Ca, and microelements). A crop’s nutrient uptake often varies, both by field and by year. Field variability is primarily due to different soil conditions, while annual variability is often a result of changing weather patterns. Therefore, nutrient management must be able to adapt to a number of variable parameters. On the other hand, the sustainable use of soil implies the preservation of its basic properties (e.g., fertility, structure, solum) during the cultivation of certain crops and the supply of crops with all nutrients. Significant progress has been made in soil and plant nutrient management in recent years. This Special Issue aims to review various innovative approaches to nutrient management, taking into account local specificities in achieving optimal yields and sustainable land use.
Dr. Željko Dželetović
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Simić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- horticultural crops
- soil sustainability
- plant nutrients
- yield
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