14 Mar Sulphur Deficiency in Oilseed crops
तिलहनी फसलों में गंधक की कमी Sulphur is an essential nutrient element for plant as well as animal kingdom. It often accumulates in areas with volcanic activity, and mostly found in organic form in soils. Though S is a secondary nutrient element, its uptake is 9-15% of N uptake and similar to that of P uptake. Crucifers are found to have much more requirement of S than other crops primarily because of oil production and other essential S containing volatile compounds. Sulphur deficiency is wide spread across the world soils (Scherer, 2009). Intensification of agriculture with high yielding varieties and multiple cropping coupled with use of high analysis sulphur free fertilizers along with...