Soil chemical properties, leaf mineral status and crop production in a lemon tree orchard irrigated with two types of wastewater

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 109, Issue , 2012, Pages 54-60

  Pedrero, Francisco ^a   Allende, Ana ^a   Gil, María I ^a   Alarcón, Juan J ^a  

^a RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fruit quality; Phytotoxicity; Plant production; Reclaimed water

Indexed keywords

CITRUS TREE; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FAECAL COLIFORMS; FRUIT QUALITY; HEALTH STANDARDS; HELMINTH EGGS; HIGH SALINITY; IRRIGATION TREATMENTS; IRRIGATION WATERS; MATURITY INDICES; MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT PRODUCTION; RE-CLAIMED WATER; SECONDARY TREATMENT; SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTY; SOIL NITRATE CONCENTRATIONS; SOLUBLE SOLIDS; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TERTIARY TREATMENT PLANTS; TIME-PERIODS; TREATED WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER QUALITY; WELL WATER;

CULTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORESTRY; FRUITS; IRRIGATION; SOILS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EFFLUENTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BORON; CHLORIDE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EFFLUENT; EVERGREEN TREE; IRRIGATION; LEAF; MINERAL; NITRATE; ORCHARD; PH; PHYTOTOXICITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOLUBILIZATION; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

MURCIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

CITRUS; CITRUS LIMON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERMES;

EID: 84859846904     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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