The overall motivation for writing this book is to meet ever increasing need for developing basic philosophy of soil and plant analysis as a key to sustained productivity. This is probably the first attempt to present methods of physical and chemical analysis of soil together with plant analysis in a single volume, so as to meet teaching requirements, to carry out routine soil and plant analysis for advisory purposes and to conduct highly specific basic research. ...
Soil and Plant Analysis: A Laboratory Manual of Methods for the Examination of Soils and the Determination of the Inorganic Constituents of Plants
Author has had many valuable discussions with chemists working throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as in other parts of the world. Much additional experience in the chemical and physical examination of soils and the chemical analysis of plant material has also been gained by his colleagues in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of the University of Adelaide and the Division of Soils of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. This ...