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Boron is an essential micronutrient element required for plant growth. Boron deficiency is wide-spread in crop plants throughout the world especially in coarse-textured soils in humid areas. Boron toxicity can also occur, especially in arid regions under irrigation. Plants respond directly to the B concentration in soil solution and only indirectly to the amount of B attached to soil surfaces (Keren et al. 1985). Therefore, the soil adsorption complex acts as both a source and a sink for dissolved B and can mitigate phytotoxic soil solution B concentrations.
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Goldberg, S., Su, C. (2007). New Advances in Boron Soil Chemistry. In: XU, F., et al. Advances in Plant and Animal Boron Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5382-5_31
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