Recognize in time the lack of zinc in maize crops

Symptoms of zinc deficiency are reflected in the visual state of the plant: they are smaller, and the young leaves are the first to be affected by interventional chlorosis (zinc is an element that is poorly mobile in plants). Zinc is also involved in nitrogen metabolism in the plant. In plants that lack zinc, protein synthesis is significantly reduced and there is an accumulation of amides and amino acids.

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