AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

The presence of boron in plants was first recorded by Mittstein and Apoiger in 1857, who were able to find boric acid in the ash of seeds of Maesa picta, an Abyssinian plant belonging to the order Myrsinaceae. More recent workers have shown that boron occurs in small proportions in the ash of many kinds of plants. In 1910 Agulhon published results of experiments showing increase in dry weight, over that of control without boron, of wheat, oats, and radish grown in sand cultures with 0.5 mg. of boron per kg. of sand.[...]