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Variation in responses to boron in rice
Boron (B) deficiency depresses grain set and grain yield of wheat and maize while having little effect on their vegetative growth. This paper describes effects of B deficiency in rice and how these vary with p...
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Contrasting responses to boron deficiency in barley and wheat
To determine if boron (B) deficiency, commonly reported to depress grain set in wheat, has the same effect in barley, a set of experiments compared five wheat and seven barley genotypes at various B levels in ...
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Overcoming wheat sterility problem with boron efficiency
Grain set failure, due to boron (B) deficiency-induced sterility of the anthers and pollen, is a cause of yield loss in many wheat growing areas of Asia. This paper illustrates a range of genotypic variation i...