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Toxicity of Boron to Rice

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IN the course of a study on the chemical retardation of soil reduction as a remedy for physiological disorders of the rice plant, we observed that despite this retardation by calcium nitrate and manganese dioxide the foliar symptoms persisted in one of the four soils studied.

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  1. Lockard, R. G., Mineral Nutrition of the Rice Plant in Malaya with Special Reference to Penyakit Merah, Malaya Dept. Agric. Bull., 108 (1959).

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  1. The International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna, The Philippines

    F. N. PONNAMPERUMA & WEN LIN YUAN

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PONNAMPERUMA, F., YUAN, W. Toxicity of Boron to Rice. Nature 211, 780–781 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211780a0

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