Boron Stem Infusions Stimulate Soybean Yield by Increasing Pods on Lateral Branches
- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 84 (4) , 969-971
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.84.4.969
Abstract
Studies were carried out to determine if supplemental B (H3BO3) and Ca (CaCl2) injected via a stem infusion technique into soybeans could stimulate yield by increasing pods on lateral branches, seed number, and overall seed yield. Boron treatments caused a significant 84.8% increase in the number of lateral pods/plant and a 17.6% increase in total seed weight/plant. This corresponded to a seed yield of 4170 kilograms per hectare in the B-treated plants compared to 3540 kilograms per hectare in the injected control plants, indicating that B deficiency may have been a factor in limiting yield of control plants. Ca treatments tended to accentuate the negative yield effects of apparent B deficiency.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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