Re: chelation

[George Booth <booth at lvld_hp.com>]

> Luca Specchio asked:
> >1) The FeEDTA or any other chelated micronutrients (such as Zn, Cu, Mn
> >etc.) can be adsorbed by plants withOUT waiting that link between EDTA and
> >Fe is broken? I suppose they can.

Someone once told me that the process involved when plant roots get nutrients 
from substrate binding sites is called adsorption (with a "d"). As I remember, 
the root trades an ion (or proton?) that it has for a nutirient ion like NH4++.

Do plants get chelated ions the same way?  Trade something for the the Fe++ ion 
in the chelator, for example?


George Booth in Ft. Collins, Colorado
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