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Boron deficiency is a major reason for lower yield of wheat and mustard in Bangladesh. This element deficiency has arisen mainly due to continuous mining of soil nutrients for increased crop** intensity without adequate replenishment. Boron deficiency induces grain sterility. Again, crop species and varieties may differ in their sensitivity to boron deficiency (Rerkasem and Jamjod, 1997; Brown et al. 1999; Kataki et al. 2001). Wheat, next to rice, is the most important cereal crop and mustard ranks first among the oilseed crops in Bangladesh. These two crops are found to be much affected by B deficiency (Jahiruddin et al. 1995; Islam et al. 1997; Haque et al. 2000). The present study was undertaken to find out a suitable dose of B for these crops and also to screen out the crop varieties tolerant or sensitive to B deficiency.
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Jahiruddin, M., Ahmed, M.U., Hossain, M.A., Islam, M.R., Islam, M.F. (2007). Boron Nutrition and Boron Application in Crops. In: XU, F., et al. Advances in Plant and Animal Boron Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5382-5_14
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