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DATA concerning the boron content of the glasshouse tomato plant were required in connexion with an investigation of a fruit condition known as ‘bronzing’. Negligible information on this subject is to be found in the standard references1–3. The boron contents of the tomato plant presented in the following tables may, therefore, prove useful in future diagnostic work.
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WILKINSON, B. Boron in the Glasshouse Tomato Plant. Nature 180, 666 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180666a0
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