The Use of Chlorophyll Meters to Assess Crop N Status and Derivation of Sufficiency Values for Sweet Pepper
Chlorophyll meters are promising tools for improving the nitrogen (N) management of vegetable crops. To facilitate on-farm use of these meters, sufficiency values that identify deficient and sufficient crop N status are required. This work evaluated the ability of three chlorophyll meters (SPAD-502,...
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| author | De Souza Ibarra, Stefani Romina Peña Fleitas, María Teresa Thompson, Rodney Gallardo Pino, María Luisa Grasso, Rafael Padilla Ruiz, Francisco Manuel |
| author_facet | De Souza Ibarra, Stefani Romina Peña Fleitas, María Teresa Thompson, Rodney Gallardo Pino, María Luisa Grasso, Rafael Padilla Ruiz, Francisco Manuel |
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| description | Chlorophyll meters are promising tools for improving the nitrogen (N) management of vegetable crops. To facilitate on-farm use of these meters, sufficiency values that identify deficient and sufficient crop N status are required. This work evaluated the ability of three chlorophyll meters (SPAD-502, atLEAF+, and MC-100) to assess crop N status in sweet pepper. It also determined sufficiency values for optimal N nutrition for each meter for pepper. The experimental work was conducted in a greenhouse, in Almería, Spain, very similar to those used for commercial production, in three different crops grown with fertigation. In each crop, there were five treatments of different N concentration in the nutrient solution, applied in each irrigation, ranging from a very deficient to very excessive N supply. In general, chlorophyll meter measurements were strongly related to crop N status in all phenological stages of the three crops, indicating that these measurements are good indicators of the crop N status of pepper. Sufficiency values determined for each meter for the four major phenological stages were consistent between the three crops. This demonstrated the potential for using these meters with sufficiency values to improve the N management of commercial sweet pepper crops. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-75762023-04-12T18:56:07Z The Use of Chlorophyll Meters to Assess Crop N Status and Derivation of Sufficiency Values for Sweet Pepper De Souza Ibarra, Stefani Romina Peña Fleitas, María Teresa Thompson, Rodney Gallardo Pino, María Luisa Grasso, Rafael Padilla Ruiz, Francisco Manuel atLEAF CCI greenhouse horticulture nitrogen nutrition index proximal optical sensors SPAD vegetable crops Chlorophyll meters are promising tools for improving the nitrogen (N) management of vegetable crops. To facilitate on-farm use of these meters, sufficiency values that identify deficient and sufficient crop N status are required. This work evaluated the ability of three chlorophyll meters (SPAD-502, atLEAF+, and MC-100) to assess crop N status in sweet pepper. It also determined sufficiency values for optimal N nutrition for each meter for pepper. The experimental work was conducted in a greenhouse, in Almería, Spain, very similar to those used for commercial production, in three different crops grown with fertigation. In each crop, there were five treatments of different N concentration in the nutrient solution, applied in each irrigation, ranging from a very deficient to very excessive N supply. In general, chlorophyll meter measurements were strongly related to crop N status in all phenological stages of the three crops, indicating that these measurements are good indicators of the crop N status of pepper. Sufficiency values determined for each meter for the four major phenological stages were consistent between the three crops. This demonstrated the potential for using these meters with sufficiency values to improve the N management of commercial sweet pepper crops. 2020-01-17T13:12:57Z 2020-01-17T13:12:57Z 2019-07-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1424-8220 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7576 en https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/13/2949 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | atLEAF CCI greenhouse horticulture nitrogen nutrition index proximal optical sensors SPAD vegetable crops De Souza Ibarra, Stefani Romina Peña Fleitas, María Teresa Thompson, Rodney Gallardo Pino, María Luisa Grasso, Rafael Padilla Ruiz, Francisco Manuel The Use of Chlorophyll Meters to Assess Crop N Status and Derivation of Sufficiency Values for Sweet Pepper |
| title | The Use of Chlorophyll Meters to Assess Crop N Status and Derivation of Sufficiency Values for Sweet Pepper |
| title_full | The Use of Chlorophyll Meters to Assess Crop N Status and Derivation of Sufficiency Values for Sweet Pepper |
| title_fullStr | The Use of Chlorophyll Meters to Assess Crop N Status and Derivation of Sufficiency Values for Sweet Pepper |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Use of Chlorophyll Meters to Assess Crop N Status and Derivation of Sufficiency Values for Sweet Pepper |
| title_short | The Use of Chlorophyll Meters to Assess Crop N Status and Derivation of Sufficiency Values for Sweet Pepper |
| title_sort | use of chlorophyll meters to assess crop n status and derivation of sufficiency values for sweet pepper |
| topic | atLEAF CCI greenhouse horticulture nitrogen nutrition index proximal optical sensors SPAD vegetable crops |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7576 |
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