Symptoms of Chlorine Deficiency in Crops and Remedies
What are the benefits of the chlorine element for crops? What happens when crops are deficient in chlorine? The following is a brief introduction from Gengzhongbang Planting Network for readers' reference. I. Benefits of the chlorine element. Chlorine is one of the nutrient elements essential for the growth and development of higher plants. The physiological roles of chlorine can generally be summarized as follows: 1. Participates...
What are the benefits of the chlorine element for crops? What happens when crops are deficient in chlorine? The following is a brief introduction from Gengzhongbang Planting Network for readers' reference.I. Benefits of the chlorine element
Chlorine is one of the nutrient elements essential for the growth and development of higher plants. The physiological roles of chlorine can generally be summarized as follows:
1. Participates in photosynthesis. In photosynthesis, chlorine acts as a cofactor for manganese in the photolysis of water. The photolysis of water is one of the initial photochemical reactions of photosynthesis.
2. Chlorine regulates the opening and closing of crop leaf stomata, thereby enhancing the drought resistance of plants. In addition, chlorine has the ability to bind water, helping crops absorb more water from the soil.
3. Applying chlorine-containing fertilizers can suppress the occurrence of many diseases. According to reports, at least 10 crops have shown significantly reduced disease severity through increased application of chlorine-containing fertilizers. For example, stripe rust of spring wheat, root rot of barley, and stalk rot of corn.
4. Chlorine is highly active and enters plants very easily, and can promote plant absorption of ammonium ions and potassium ions.
II. Symptoms of chlorine deficiency in crops
The general symptoms of chlorine deficiency are plant stunting, leaf chlorosis, and smaller leaf shape. The symptoms of chlorine deficiency are not exactly the same in different crops. For example, spring wheat with chlorine deficiency shows yellowing leaves with many spots; lettuce, cabbage and alfalfa with chlorine deficiency show wilted leaves, but the roots are short, thick and club-shaped, and the young leaf margins curl upward in a cup shape; when cotton is deficient in chlorine, the leaves wilt, the leaf color is dark green, and in severe cases, the leaf margins dry up and curl.
Suggestion from Zhongdi Network: Because chlorine has a wide range of sources, the chlorine contained in the atmosphere and rainwater alone far exceeds the annual requirement of crops, so under field production conditions, chlorine deficiency rarely occurs. Once chlorine deficiency occurs, applying chlorine-containing fertilizers such as ammonium chloride and potassium chloride can eliminate the symptoms.
The above is the introduction from Gengzhongbang Planting Network on the benefits of chlorine and the symptoms of chlorine deficiency in crops. If you have better additions, please leave a comment below to tell us.