volume 46 issue 3 (september 2012) : 275-280
CRITICAL LIMIT OF AVAILABLE BORON FOR RICE IN ALLUVIAL ZONE SOILS OF WEST BENGAL
1Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Sciences,
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur-741 252, India
ABSTRACT
A pot culture experiment was conducted on rice to study critical limit of boron (B) in soils of alluvial zone of West Bengal. The hot water soluble B in these soils was found to be positively and significantly correlated with pH, organic carbon, CEC, and per cent dry matter yield of rice, B concentration in plant tissues and B uptake by shoots. The critical concentration of soil available B and plant tissues B was worked out to 0.35 and 12.0 mg kg 1, respectively below which appreciable responses to B application were observed. The average dry matter yield increasesd with increasing level of B application upto 0.5 mg kg 1. The response to B application in rice on B deficient soils was found to be 55.9%.
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