Abstract
The fertirrigation technique allows a saving of water and a more rational use of fertilizers. As the installations are quite expensive, high yield and fruit quality are required to make the investment profitable. Under fertirrigation culture, plant nutrition is controlled by the elements that are applied in the irrigation water, so a correct dosage is needed to meet plant requirements and to minimize contamination.
Since root proliferation is very restricted, Fe has to be supplied even if non calcareous substrates are used. Five main points must to be considered to properly chose appropriate Fe fertilizers: 1- reactivity in the concentrated nutrient solution, usually prepared with concentrated acids, 2- reactivity with the irrigation waters in the pipes, considering hardness and salinity of the waters, 3- interactions with the soil solution of the substrate, 4- interactions with the substrate solid phases, and 5- efficiency of iron uptake by plants from the substrate.
Commercial chelates have different efficiencies for correcting iron chlorosis. The characteristics of these products need to be evaluated, under both chemical and biological tests, by using experimental conditions similar to those in the field.
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Lucena, J.J. (1995). Iron fertirrigation. In: Abadía, J. (eds) Iron Nutrition in Soils and Plants. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0503-3_22
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