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Plant Physiology 84:969-971 (1987)
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Development and Growth Regulation

Boron Stem Infusions Stimulate Soybean Yield by Increasing Pods on Lateral Branches 1

Mary K. Schon and Dale G. Blevins

Interdisciplinary Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211

Studies were carried out to determine if supplemental B (H3BO3) and Ca (CaCl2) injected via a stem infusion technique into soybeans could stimulate yield by increasing pods on lateral branches, seed number, and overall seed yield. Boron treatments caused a significant 84.8% increase in the number of lateral pods/plant and a 17.6% increase in total seed weight/plant. This corresponded to a seed yield of 4170 kilograms per hectare in the B-treated plants compared to 3540 kilograms per hectare in the injected control plants, indicating that B deficiency may have been a factor in limiting yield of control plants. Ca treatments tended to accentuate the negative yield effects of apparent B deficiency.

1 Supported by the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station and by a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Needs Fellowship Program, grant 84-GRAD-9-0033. This research is a contribution of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series No. 10253.




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