Hopefully this helps.......... this is the current book I am using for class
Plant Nutrition and Soil Fertility Manual
J. Benton Jones, Jr.
2nd Edition CRC Press ISBN -978-1-4398-1609-7
Its around $70 on either Amazon or Abesbooks.
These are other books that were recommended to me and could be cheaper:
Agnew, M.L., N.H. Agnew, N.E. Christians, and A. M. VanDerZanden. 2008. Mathematics for the Green Industry. John Wiley & Sons Inc. Hoboken, NJ.
Epstein, E. and A.J. Bloom. 2004. Mineral Nutrition of Plants: Principles and Perspectives. Sinauer Association Inc. Sunderland Mass.
Glass, A.D. M. 1989. Plant Nutrition. An Introduction to Current Concepts. Jones and Bartlett Publishers Inc, Boston. ISBN 0-86720-080-4
Marschner, H. 1995. Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants, Second Edition. Academic Press, New York.
Mengel, K. E.A. Kirby, H. Kosegarten, and T. Appeal. 2001. Principles of Plant Nutrition. Kluwer AC Pub., Boston.
Reed, D.W. (ed) 1996. Water, Media, and Nutrition for Greenhouse Crops. Ball Publishing, Batavia, IL.
Whipker, B.E., J.M. Dole, T.J. Cavins, J.L. Gibson, W.C. Fonteno, P.V. Nelson, D.S. Pitchay, and D.A. Bailey. Plant Root Zone Management. North Carolina State University. (
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