Greenhouse Management for Horticultural Crops (2nd Ed.)

A greenhouse is a framed or an inflated structure covered with a transparent or translucent material in which crops could be grown under the condition of at least partially controlled environment and which is large enough to permit persons to work within it to carry out cultural operations. The Floriculture industry, especially cut-flower industry, has its major role in the development of greenhouse industry in world.

1. Greenhouse: An Artificial House for Plants
2. Types of Greenhouses
3. Greenhouse Construction: Related Aspects
4. Greenhouse Heating
5. Greenhouse Cooling
6. Root Media
7. Nutrient Solution for Growth Media
8. Mineral Nutrition and Fertilization for Greenhouse Crops
9. Technical Control of the Nutrient Solution
10. Alternative Cropping Systems for Greenhouse
11. Carbon Dioxide Fertilization
12. Light and Temperature Management in Greenhouse
13. Various Types of Soilless Culture: General Aspects
14. Water Culture
15. Sand Culture
16. Gravel Culture
17. Technical Control of the Plant Culture in Greenhouse
18. Plant Tissue Culture Techniques for Developing Greenhouse Crops
19. Chemical Growth Regulation of Greenhouse Crops
20. Pests and Soil Organisms of Greenhouse Plants
21. Pest Management
22. Post Production Handling
23. Pesticide Application: Equipment and its Calibration
24. Greenhouse Plant Diseases and their Control

Subject Index