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Relationship of Soils to Manganese Deficiency of Plants

Nature volume 134, pages 972–973 (1934)Cite this article

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MANGANESE deficiency disease is confined to soils of pH. 6.7 or more and occurs especially on heavily limed sandy podsols. Most neutral and alkaline soils, however, evidently contain ample quantities of manganese in a form available to plants. A method of chemical analysis has been found which appears to measure the amount of this available manganese.

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LEEPER, G. Relationship of Soils to Manganese Deficiency of Plants. Nature 134, 972–973 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134972c0

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