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Horticulture Industry Updates

New studies, trials and growing technology from universities and research institutes, summarised in plain English, with the trial details and a link to the original study.

  • Nutrients

    Which aquaponics setup grows better lettuce?

    In a Universidad Autónoma Chapingo greenhouse trial, lettuce in a recirculating aquaponics system yielded 10.93 kg per square metre, against 0.37 kg in a biofloc system.

  • Nutrients

    Can biostimulants help young maize use recycled phosphorus?

    University of Hohenheim researchers found that humic substances and chitosan raised young maize growth by 21 to 34% and phosphorus uptake by 23 to 35% when paired with struvite or a soluble phosphate, but gave no detectable gain with a treated sewage sludge ash within six weeks.