Vegetables form an important part of our diet. The quality of vegetables that we consume is influenced by deficiency or excess of mineral elements, hormonal imbalance, improper pollination or fertilization, injuries due to adverse climatic and growing conditions and some physiological factors. This book provides scientific knowledge on the role of both major and minor nutrients, adviser climatic and other related factors in the growth and development of physiological disorders of vegetable crops, making them unfit for human consumption. An attempt has been made in this book to give as much information as possible regarding causes, symptoms and the role of elements and temperature associated in the development of the avoidable disorders.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K L Bhat
Dr. Kanaya Lal Bhat Professor, Division of Vegetable Science and Floriculture, Shre-e-kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (J &K). Dr. Bhat received his Ph.D. in Vegetable Science from HPKV, Palampur (HP) in 2004. he has taught vegetable science courses to M.Sc and Ph.D. students at SKUASTK and SKUAST Jammu for about 20 years and has guided a number of M.Sc and a Ph. D student in the discipline of vegetable production. He is author of numerous research papers and has written extensively in scientific press and for the general public. He has participated in several national seminars and workshops on vegetable. He has to his credit on book viz., Minor Vegetables Un-tapped Potential, which has received wide acclaim from the students of agriculture, horticulture and vegetable growers.
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