Color Pictures of Mineral Deficiencies in Table Beets

from

The Diagnosis of Mineral Deficiencies in Plants by Visual Symptoms
by Thomas Wallace, M.C., D.Sc., A.I.C.

Published by His Majesty's Stationary Office — 1943

— Crown Copyright Reserved —

PAESNIP IN SAND CULTURE — from the 1951 edition 

Table Beet Plant - Magnesium deficiency 
146. Table Beet Plant


Magnesium deficiency


Older leaves, intervenal chlorosis and reddish tinting.

 

Table Beet Plant - Iron deficiency 
147. Table Beet Plant


Iron deficiency


Younger leaves chlorotic and high red tints.

 

Table Beet Plant - Manganese deficiency 
148. Table Beet Plant


Manganese deficiency


Leaves triangular shape, margins curled forward; older leaves severely
speckled; root dwarfed.

 

Table Beet Leaves - Manganese deficiency 
149. Table Beet Leaves


Manganese deficiency


Leaves triangular shape, margins curled forward and severe intervenal
speckling.

 

Table Beet - Manganese deficiency
150. Table Beet


Manganese deficiency


General field view. Foreground: susceptible "globe" variety severly
speckled; Background: resistant long variety.

 

Table Beet Plants - Boron deficiency 
151. Table Beet Plants


Boron deficiency


Collapse of foliage, beginning with young leaves; rotting of outer tissues
of the roots. ("Canker")

 

Table Beet Roots - Boron deficiency 
152. Table Beet Roots


Boron deficiency


Transverse section. "Canker" lesions, mainly in outer tissues.

 

Seakale Beet Plant - Calcium deficiency 
153. Seakale Beet Plant


Calcium deficiency


Hooking distortion and marginal scorch of young leaves; growing point killed.

 
 






Index





  • Flax

  • Hops

  • Kale

  • Lettuce

  • Maize

  • Mangold

  • Oats

  • Onion

  • Parsnip

  • Pear

  • Peas

  • Plum

    		• 

  • Potatoes

  • Radish

  • Rape

  • Rye

  • Spinach

  • Sugar Beet

  • Swede

  • Table Beets      

  • Tomatoes

  • Turnips

  • Wheat

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