Table 3.
Mn and Zn content of wheat shoots at three harvests expressed as: total content; content at each harvest as a percentage of total content at maturity; and content in plant parts as a percentage of the total at each harvest
| Treatment Harvest | Control Mn |
Control Zn |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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| Total content (µg) | 565 | 708 | 796 | 232 | 342 | 397 | ||||||
| % maturity | 71 | 89 | 100 | 77 | 95 | 100 | ||||||
| % plant part | ||||||||||||
| LL | 18 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| DLL | 30 | 31 | 28 | 14 | 11 | 8 | ||||||
| (TLL) | (48) | (34) | (28) | (22) | (12) | (8) | ||||||
| FLA | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| ST | 32 | 15 | 14 | 40 | 35 | 30 | ||||||
| PE | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 | ||||||
| RA | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| FLO | 7 | 11 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 8 | ||||||
| GR | 0 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 35 | 42 | ||||||
Plant parts: LL, lower leaf; DLL, dead lower leaf; TLL, combined live and dead lower leaves; FLA, flag leaf; ST, stems; PE, peduncle; RA, rachis; FLO, florets; GR, grain.