Figure 8.

Effects of foliar application of micronutrients on the molar ratios of (a) phytate:zinc and (b) phytate:iron in grains of Chinese wheat landraces (n = 28) and cultivars (n = 65). Note: The box boundaries indicate upper and lower quartiles; the whiskers indicate the 90th and 10th percentiles; the circles indicate the 95th and 5th percentiles; the solid and dashed horizontal lines indicate median and mean, respectively. ∗ ∗∗ is statistically significant at P < 0.001, ns indicate not significant at P < 0.05.