Claim · model-written summary
Boron treatments did not improve juice purity in sugar beet.
- Taxon
- sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0 - Treatment
- liquid and solid applications of sodium boratese1
- Outcome
- juice puritye2
- Direction
- was not improvede2
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Verbatim
e0“to sugar beet at seeding”
e1“liquid and solid applications of sodium borates, used at the rate of 20 lb. borax equivalent/acre”
e2“juice purity was not improved”
Title
Effects of soil and foliar applications of sodium borate to sugar beet
J. H. Hamence; P. A. Oram Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 1964. doi:10.1002/jsfa.2740150811
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Sodium borate applications were effective in controlling, but not always eliminating, boron-deficiency symptoms in sugar beet.
- Intervention effect Boron treatments had no detrimental influence on germination, population or growth of sugar beet.
- Intervention effect Boron treatments increased yields of roots and sugar, and sugar content, significantly only at severely deficient sites.
- Intervention effect Boron treatments did not reduce noxious nitrogen in sugar beet.
- Intervention effect The trials give no support to a specific value of boron addition for increasing sugar content where soils have a normal boron supply.
- Intervention effect Boron treatment increased leaf weight more consistently than root yield in sugar beet.
- Association Serious boron deficiency in sugar beet is more prevalent in drier years and on lighter soils.
- Association No consistent differences in sugar beet were observed between liquid and solid boron applications.
- Intervention effect August boron treatment gave no good results in sugar beet.
- Method / resource Soil analysis of total or available boron is an unreliable means of diagnosing boron requirement in sugar beet, compared with analysis of older leaf blades.
- Recommendation Analysis of blades of older leaves in June is recommended as the procedure for diagnosing boron requirement in sugar beet.
- Association Boron contents of soils or plants are not reflected in sugar beet roots, nor are the results of boron addition.
- Observation Available boron in soils and total boron in sugar beet plants are highest in late summer.
- Observation Residual effects of August boron addition in sugar beet are small and well below the safety margin for less tolerant crops.
- Recommendation A routine application of borate to all sugar beet crops grown on lighter soils is a wise precaution.
- Intervention effect A foliar spray applied in June or after singling is just as effective as a fertiliser applied to the seed bed in sugar beet.