Hydroponic culture solutions containing bicarbonate (HCO3 ) may be used to screen crops such as soybeans (Glycine max) for resistance to iron (Fe) deficiency or chlorosis. Some successful methods use sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) in combination with elevated partial pressures of carbon dioxide (CO2) to buffer pH and elevate bicarbonate. Replacing NaHCO3 with magnesium bicarbonate [Mg(HCO3)2] as t...

Experiments were conducted on Nicotiana tabacum, L. to study the relation in the grana among chlorophylls, carotenoids, and proteins. The effect of iron chlorosis on protein and pigment synthesis was studied at different stages of chlorosis using glycine-U-C(14). Pigments were separated by thin layer chromatography.Chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, carotenoid, and protein contents of chloroplasts f...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS This work evaluates the regulation of iron uptake responses in Citrus leaves and their involvement in the Fe paradox effect. METHODS Experiments were performed in field-grown 'Navelina' trees grafted onto two Cleopatra mandarin × Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf. hybrids with different Fe-chlorosis symptoms: 030146 (non-chlorotic) and 030122 (chlorotic). RESULTS Chlorotic le...

For nearly four centuries a disease known as chlorosis, the green sickness or the virgin's disease, was commonly recognised. There are many references to it in literature and art from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries' -3 and numerous clinical descriptions by physicians. Until the middle of the nineteenth century there was, however, no general agreement on the cause of the disease; then...