Abiotic disorders of landscape plants
Subtitle: a diagnostic guide
By: Laurence R. Costello ... [et al.].
Contributors: Costello, Laurence Raleigh.
Series: Publication / University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources -- 3420.; Publication (University of California (System). Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources) -- 3420.
Publisher: University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oakland, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Landscape plants -- Diseases and pests.; Plant diseases -- Diagnosis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Diagnosing abiotic disorders : challenges, traits, strategies, and tools; title: Laboratory analysis of soil, water, and tissue samples; title: Common injury symptoms and abiotic causes; title: Plant traits that resemble abiotic disorders; title: Specific abiotic disorders : symptoms, causes, look-alike disorders, diagnosis, sensitive and tolerant species, and remedies: water deficit ; aeration deficit ; nutrient deficiencies ; salinity (salt injury) and specific ion toxicity ; problems related to pH ; low temperature ; sunburn ; sunscald ; thermal injury ; high and low light ; wind ; gas injury ; air pollution ; lightning injury ; hail injury ; girdling and kinked roots ; mechanical injury ; graft incompatibility ; herbicide phytotoxicity ; other chemical phytotoxicities; title: Case studies.