Claim · model-written summary
Calcareous soils in arid and semi-arid regions have low zinc availability and plant uptake.
- Taxon
- plantsViridiplantaee0
- Outcome
- zinc availability and uptake by plantse0
- Direction
- lowe0
- Setting
- arid and semi-arid regionse0
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Verbatim
e0“In arid and semi-arid regions, calcareous soils (rich in calcium carbonate) are widespread, which is distinguished by low zinc availability and consequently low zinc availability and uptake by plants”
Title
Zinc in the Soil and Its Importance for the Plants and Human Health. An integratedreview
El Masry; C Abreu; A Lopes; et al. Middle East Journal of Applied Sciences 2021. doi:10.36632/mejas/2021.11.2.43
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Zinc supports plant nutrition and agricultural yield and quality.
- Intervention effect Zinc deficiency reduces crop productivity and quality.
- Association Soil pH, organic matter, clay and calcium carbonate affect zinc availability to plants.
- Association Soil zinc, moisture, rhizosphere activity, redox and other nutrients affect zinc availability.
- Intervention effect Zinc deficiency affects plant growth and causes crop production and quality losses.
- Intervention effect Zinc deficiency causes losses in crop production and quality.
- Observation Visible zinc deficiency symptoms include chlorosis, necrosis and bronzing.
- Observation Visible zinc deficiency symptoms include rosetting, stunting and malformed leaves.
- Observation Around half of cereal crops are grown on zinc-deficient soils.