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Rates of added B up to 1.8 kg/ha had no effect on grain yield, but at rates of 2.24 kg/ha and higher it decreased yield of both barley and wheat. Lime-stone applications up to 4000 kg/ha did not induce B deficiency at low levels of B or alleviate B toxicity at high B levels in the two crops. Liming increased barley yields where soil pH was less than 5.8 but gave no yield response when soil pH exceeded 5.8. In general, liming did not decrease the B concentration of boot stage tissue (b.s.t.) except in barley at 1.8 kg B/ha on Location 1, where liming to pH 6.3 and 6.6 decreased B in b.s.t. from 16.4 to 12.2 and 11.4 ppm. The applications of B generally increased the N concentration of wheat grain where yields decreased due to B toxicity.
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Contribution no. 360, Research Branch, Research Station, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, C1A 7M8.
Contribution no. 360, Research Branch, Research Station, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, C1A 7M8.
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Gupta, U.C. Effects of boron and limestone on cereal yields and on B and N concentration of plant tissue. Plant Soil 47, 283–287 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00010393
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