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CHANGES IN THE MINERAL METABOLISM OF GANODERMA WILT AFFECTED COCONUT PALMS

Volume : 85
Issue: Oct-dec
Pages: 531 - 533
Published: July 01, 2023
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Abstract


The changes in the micronutrients content of Ganoderma will affected and apparently healthy coconut palms were studied. There was a progressive increase in the content of Fe in leaf, root and bark with increase in disease severity. The content of Zn was reduced due to wilt infection in all the tissues studied. Eventhough, there was not much variation in the Mn content of leaf. root and bark from bleeding area, it increased in leaf and root tissues of wilt affected palms.

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531 - 533
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Coconut Ganoderma wilt Mineral metabolism
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