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LIME-INDUCED chlorosis of fruit trees is a serious problem on calcareous soils in Great Britain, and until recently the only practical means of correcting this disorder was a combination of grass cover and trunk injection of iron salts. The injection method is laborious, transient in effect and often causes severe damage to the trunk, especially to Prunus species. Soil treatment with iron salts has not been effective owing to precipitation of iron in the soil.
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BOULD, C. Chelated Iron Compounds for the Correction of Lime-induced Chlorosis in Fruit. Nature 175, 90–91 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175090a0
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