Abstract
Boron is an essential micronutrient element required for the normal growth of plants. The range between boron deficiency and toxicity symptoms in plants is typically narrow, in the range of 0.028 to 0.093 mmol/L for sensitive crops and 0.37 to 1.39 mmol/L for tolerant crops (Goldberg, 1997). Much work has been done on plant availability of boron and physico-chemistry of boron in soil, but generally not in combination. Availability of boron to plants is affected by a variety of soil factors including soil solution pH, soil texture, soil moisture, temperature, oxide content, carbonate content, organic matter content, and clay mineralogy (Goldberg et al. 2000). However, these soil properties are functions of the physico-chemistry of soils, so that determination of relationships between plant availability of boron and the physico-chemical properties of boron in soils has still tremendous interest for us. This article summarizes results about plant availability of B, physico-chemical properties of soil B, chemical behavior of common B soil minerals and their relationships.
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Zhu, D., Juan, W., Liao, S., Liu, W. (2007). Relationship Between Plant Availability of Boron and the Physico-chemical Properties of Boron in Soils. In: XU, F., et al. Advances in Plant and Animal Boron Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5382-5_33
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