Plants require several essential mineral nutrients for their growth and development. These nutrients are required to maintain physiological processes and structural integrity in plants. The root architecture has evolved to absorb nutrients from soil and transport them to other parts of the plant. Nutrient deficiency affects several physiological and biological processes in plants and leads to r...

Biofortification (increasing the contents of vitamins and minerals through plant breeding or biotechnology) of food crops with micronutrient elements has the potential to combat widespread micronutrient deficiencies in humans. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) feeds more than half of the world's population and is used as a staple food in many parts of Asia. As in other plants, micronutrient transport in r...

recurrent ear, nose, and throat (ent) infections are common presenting symptoms in patients with primary antibody deficiencies , but sometimes they remain undiagnosed for many years and are subjected to different antibiotics because of a lack of experience in immunodeficiencies. in order to determin the frequency of ent symptoms among the patients with antibody deficiencies, 83 antibody deficie...

Sulfur deficiencies occur on many of the undeveloped agricultural soils found in the mountain valleys of the western United States; however, the majority of the S soil-test correlation studies have been conducted on leached and weathered soils. Identification of S deficiency on alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) growing in three mountain valleys permitted the collection of S soil-test correlation dat...

Previous investigational work on the nutrition on the strawberry has been concerned largely with the relationship of soil and fertilizer treatment to growth and yield (5). While these studies have increased greatly the knowledge of the fertilizer requirements of the strawberry, they did not describe the symptoms of mineral deficiencies nor show the mineral composition of the plant and fruit. It...

The micronutrient density of seeds is important not only for human nutrition but also for the nutrition of the next generation seedling. Deficiencies of zinc (Zn), iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) in soils and crops occur nearly in all countries, particularly in cereals growing areas. The deficiencies adversely affect both food production and human health in a major part of the world. Therefore, va...

The purpose of this article is to present the development of a wind farm, with a condition monitoring system (CMS) based on control charts as the algorithm, centred on a new index, to prevent soil pollution by oil spills in wind farms. To this end, temperature sensors can be considered as one of the more significant sensors to be employed in this study, because the information obtained with reg...