Organic Wheat Farming Improves Grain Zinc Concentration
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Organic Wheat Farming Improves Grain Zinc Concentration
Zinc (Zn) nutrition is of key relevance in India, as a large fraction of the population suffers from Zn malnutrition and many soils contain little plant available Zn. In this study we compared organic and conventional wheat cropping systems with respect to DTPA (diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid)-extractable Zn as a proxy for plant available Zn, yield, and grain Zn concentration. We analyzed...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160729