A Guide to Citrus Nutritional Deficiency and Toxicity Identification. 1. Stephen H. Futch and David P. H. Tucker 2. Citrus trees in commercial and dooryard plantings can exhibit a host of symptoms reflecting various disorders that can impact their health, vigor, and productivity to varying degrees. Identifying symptoms correctly is an important
Potassium is a mobile nutrient, meaning it moves throughout the plant. As with all mobile nutrients, deficiency symptoms will first appear in older leaves. If your plants don’t have enough potassium, margins of the lower leaves will turn yellow or brown. This symptom is known as marginal chlorosis.
4. Impart pest and disease resistance to plants 5. Required for ATP synthesis and better N use efficiency by favoring the protein formation. 6. Plants become strong and stiff; thus it reduces lodging of plants. 7. Essential in the formation and transfer of starch and sugars especially in potato, sweet potato, turnip, banana, tapioca. Deficiency
Similar symptoms of potassium deficiency manifesting chlorosis, followed by necrosis in apices and margins of old leaves, reduced in plant height were identified in Annona muricata [20] (Batista et al., 2003), and Myrciaria dubia [25] .
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