Claim · model-written summary
Soil zinc, moisture, rhizosphere activity, redox and other nutrients affect zinc availability.
- Taxon
- plantsViridiplantaet0
- Outcome
- Zinc availability in the soilse0
- Setting
- soilse0
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Verbatim
e0“Zinc availability in the soils is greatly affected by their total zinc content, organic matter contents, soil moisture status, microbial activity in the rhizosphere, redox conditions, and concentrations of other macro and microelements, especially copper, phosphorus and nitrogen”
t0“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.
- Observation Calcareous soils in arid and semi-arid regions have low zinc availability and plant uptake.
- 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.