Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms |
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Nitrogen
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Die back of older leaves.
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Leaf baldes turn light green to yellow.
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Short and slender stalks
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Tips and margins of older leaves become necrotic.
In the picture: Nitrogen deficiency symptom (Source: D.L. Anderson)

In the picture: phosphorus deficiency symptom
Phosphorus
Potassium
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Yellow-orange chlorosis of leaf borders & tips
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Stalks slender
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Older leaves brown or "fired"
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Spindles distorted producing "bunched top" or "fan' appearance.
Calcium
- Mottling and chlorosis of older leaves
- Spindles often become necrotic at the leaf tip and long margins
- Rusty appearance and premature death of older leaves

In the picture (Source: D.L. Anderson):
Magnesium deficiency symptom
Magnesium
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Mottled or chlorotic appearance at the tip and margins
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Red necrotic lesions resulting in "rusty" appearance
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Internal browning of rind
Sulphur
Copper
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Green splotches with leaves eventually showing bleaching
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Stalk and meristems lack turgidity
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Reduced internodal length and tillering.

In the picture :
Iron deficiency symptom
Iron
Manganese
Boron
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Distorted leaves
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Formation of translucent lesions or water sacks along leaf margins
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Brittle and bunched with many tillers
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Death of apical meristem.

In the picture: Molybdenum deficiency symptom (source: J.E. Bowen)
Molybdenum
Zinc
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Midrib and leaf margin remain green and yellowing of leaf blade
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Red lesions on leaves
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Reduced tillering and shorter internodes
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Thin stalks with loss of turgidity.
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