{"id":1227,"date":"2018-07-16T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2018-07-16T17:44:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:44:51","slug":"alternatives-to-peat-for-organic-seedlings-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/07\/16\/alternatives-to-peat-for-organic-seedlings-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to peat for organic seedlings production"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1228\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1228 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/pascual-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/pascual-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/pascual-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/pascual.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/pascual-640x393.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Pascual et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Peat is the standard substrate used in nursery transplant production although its utilization is cause for environmental and ecological concerns. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-018-0508-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pascual et al.<\/a> review the new substrate alternatives for organic production. They reckon that compost or other materials supplemented with coir and minerals can bring added values that peat cannot provide, including seedling nutrition, the presence of beneficial microorganisms and pathogen suppression, and allow a more sustainable production.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-018-0508-4'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peat is the standard substrate used in nursery transplant production although its utilization is cause for environmental and ecological concerns. Scientists Pascual et al. review the new substrate alternatives for organic production. They reckon that compost or other materials supplemented with coir and minerals can bring added values that peat cannot provide, including seedling nutrition, &#8230; <a title=\"Alternatives to peat for organic seedlings production\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2018\/07\/16\/alternatives-to-peat-for-organic-seedlings-production\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alternatives to peat for organic seedlings production\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organic-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}