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Metal Toxicity

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Soil Mineral Stresses

Part of the book series: Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics ((GENETICS,volume 21))

Abstract

Problems posed to plants by metal toxicity in the soils of the world are basically of two kinds. The first kind are of natural origin. These arise either as a consequence of the nature of the parent material from which a particular soil is derived, or from the processes of soil formation. Such events tend to lead to toxicities due to the products of soil mineral decomposition under acid conditions, predominantly to aluminium and/or manganese and iron. The soils characterised by aluminium and manganese toxicities comprise some 40% of the world’s land area given over to arable farming (Clark 1982), and as such, potentially pose a major constraint to the world’s agricultural production.

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McNeilly, T. (1994). Metal Toxicity. In: Yeo, A.R., Flowers, T.J. (eds) Soil Mineral Stresses. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84289-4_7

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