The document summarizes the deficiency symptoms of essential elements in rice and mungbean. It describes how nitrogen deficiency causes old rice leaves to become light green and chlorotic, and older mungbean leaves to become pale green to yellow. Phosphorus deficiency results in narrow, short, erect rice leaves and stunted mungbean growth. Potassium deficiency causes yellowish-brown margins on rice leaves and marginal chlorosis of mungbean leaves. It then provides similar descriptions of the deficiency symptoms for other essential elements like calcium, magnesium, sulfur, and iron in tomato plants.
The document summarizes the deficiency symptoms of essential elements in rice and mungbean. It describes how nitrogen deficiency causes old rice leaves to become light green and chlorotic, and older mungbean leaves to become pale green to yellow. Phosphorus deficiency results in narrow, short, erect rice leaves and stunted mungbean growth. Potassium deficiency causes yellowish-brown margins on rice leaves and marginal chlorosis of mungbean leaves. It then provides similar descriptions of the deficiency symptoms for other essential elements like calcium, magnesium, sulfur, and iron in tomato plants.
The document summarizes the deficiency symptoms of essential elements in rice and mungbean. It describes how nitrogen deficiency causes old rice leaves to become light green and chlorotic, and older mungbean leaves to become pale green to yellow. Phosphorus deficiency results in narrow, short, erect rice leaves and stunted mungbean growth. Potassium deficiency causes yellowish-brown margins on rice leaves and marginal chlorosis of mungbean leaves. It then provides similar descriptions of the deficiency symptoms for other essential elements like calcium, magnesium, sulfur, and iron in tomato plants.
The document summarizes the deficiency symptoms of essential elements in rice and mungbean. It describes how nitrogen deficiency causes old rice leaves to become light green and chlorotic, and older mungbean leaves to become pale green to yellow. Phosphorus deficiency results in narrow, short, erect rice leaves and stunted mungbean growth. Potassium deficiency causes yellowish-brown margins on rice leaves and marginal chlorosis of mungbean leaves. It then provides similar descriptions of the deficiency symptoms for other essential elements like calcium, magnesium, sulfur, and iron in tomato plants.
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Name: Jodie Mer C.
Dayama Date: October 20, 2022
Course/Year/Section: BS in Agriculture – 2A Subject: SS 201
ESSENTIAL ELEMENT AND ITS DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS
Essential Elements Deficiency Symptoms Photo
Nitrogen Rice: Under N deficiency, old leaves and sometimes all leaves of rice become light green and chlorotic at the tip.
Mungbean: Older leaves are pale green to
yellow; stunted plants with few flowers and poorly filled pods
Phosphorus Rice: Under P deficiency, leaves are
narrow, short, very erect, and develop if the variety has a tendency to produce anthocyanin.
Mungbean: Slow growth; small dark
green leaves in upper part of plant; older leaves yellow then turn brown and senesce. Stunted plants with thin stems and short internodes. Flowers abort.
Potassium Rice: Under K deficiency, dark-green
plants with yellowish-brown leaf margins or dark-brown necrotic spots first appear on the tips of older leaves. Under severe K deficiency, leaf tips are yellowish brown. Older leaves change from yellow to brown.
Mungbean: Symptoms mainly in young
plants. Marginal chlorosis of older leaves which turns to yellow brown scorch in between the veins (sometimes resembling common bacterial blight, but without water-soaked appearance); leaf may curl downward while scorched margins curl upward; plants can be stunted with poor root systems, leading to collapse. Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen Calcium Tomato: The calcium-deficient leaves show necrosis around the base of the leaves. The very low mobility of calcium is a major factor determining the expression of calcium deficiency symptoms in plants. Classic symptoms of calcium deficiency include blossom-end rot of tomato. Symptoms show soft dead necrotic tissue at rapidly growing areas, which is generally related to poor translocation of calcium to the tissue rather than a low external supply of calcium. This ultimately results in the margins of the leaves growing more slowly than the rest of the leaf, causing the leaf to cup downward. Plants under chronic calcium deficiency have a much greater tendency to wilt than non-stressed plants. Magnesium Tomato: The Mg-deficient leaves show advanced interveinal chlorosis, in its advanced form, magnesium deficiency may superficially resemble potassium deficiency. The symptoms generally start with mottled chlorotic areas developing in the interveinal tissue.
Sulfur Tomato: This leaves show a general
overall chlorosis. The veins and petioles show a very distinct reddish color. The yellowing is much more uniform over the entire plant including young leaves. The reddish color often found on the underside of the leaves. With advanced sulfur deficiency the leaves tend to become more erect and often twisted and brittle. Iron Tomato: The iron-deficient leaves show strong chlorosis at the base of the leaves with some green netting. The most common symptom for iron deficiency starts out as an interveinal chlorosis of the youngest leaves, evolves into an overall chlorosis, and ends as a totally bleached leaf. Because iron has a low mobility, iron deficiency symptoms appear first on the youngest leaves. Iron deficiency is strongly associated with calcareous soils, anaerobic conditions, and it is often induced by an excess of heavy metals. Manganese Tomato: The leaves show a light interveinal chlorosis developed under a limited supply of Mn. The early stages of the chlorosis induced by manganese deficiency are somewhat similar to iron deficiency. As the stress increases, the leaves develop dark necrotic areas along the veins. Zinc Tomato: The leaves show interveinal necrosis. In the early stages of zinc deficiency the younger leaves become yellow and pitting develops in the interveinal upper surfaces of the mature leaves. As the deficiency progress these symptoms develop into an intense interveinal necrosis but the main veins remain green, as in the symptoms of recovering iron deficiency Copper Tomato: The copper-deficient leaves are curled, and their petioles bend downward. Copper deficiency may be expressed as a light overall chlorosis along with the permanent loss of turgor in the young leaves. Recently matured leaves show netted, green veining with areas bleaching to a whitish gray. Some leaves develop sunken necrotic spots and have a tendency to bend downward. Boron Tomato: These boron-deficient leaves show a light general chlorosis. Boron deficiency results in necrosis of meristematic tissues in the growing region, leading to loss of apical dominance and the development of a rosette condition. These deficiency symptoms are similar to those caused by calcium deficiency. The leaves are unusually brittle and tend to break easily. Also, there is often a wilting of the younger leaves even under an adequate water supply, pointing to a disruption of water transport caused by boron deficiency. Molybdenum Tomato: The leaves show some mottled spotting along with some interveinal chlorosis. An early symptom for molybdenum deficiency is a general overall chlorosis, similar to the symptom for nitrogen deficiency but generally without the reddish coloration on the undersides of the leaves.