Course Material
- Week 1: Time table
- Week 1: Introduction to course and course schedule
- Week 1: Introduction to crop growth, factors affecting and growth expressions
- Week 2: Essential plant nutrients: functions, deficiency and toxicity
- Week 3: Movement of nutrients to roots, acquisition and uptake
- Week 4: Nitrogen gains and losses in soil, nitrogen fertilizers
- Week 5: Phosphorus forms and P-fertilizers behavior in soil
- Week 6: Potassium forms, amount and exchange equilibrium in soil
- Week 7: Calcium, forms and amount in soil
- Week 8: Magnesium forms and amount in soil
- Week 9: Sulfur forms and amount in soil
- Week 10: Integrated plant nutrient management
- Week 11: Nutrients behavior in submerged soil
- Week 12: Possible new essential elements, cobalt and selenium
- Week 13: Possible new essential elements, sodium and silicon
- Week 14: Possible new essential elements, nickel
- Week 15: Nutrient cycling in soils
- Week 16: Nutrient role in human and plant health
- Practical manual
- Chapters 19
- Department Soil and Environmental Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Mukkram Ali Tahir