Deficiency Symptoms :

• Depressed growth
• Yellowing and marginal drying of older leaves and
• Development of slender stalks.
• Orange, yellow colour appears in the older lower leaves which develop numerous chlorotic spots that later become brown with dead centre result in ‘firing’ apperance.
• Reddish discoloration which is confined to the epidermal cells of the upper surfaces and midribs of the leaves. Bunchy top appearance.
• Poor root growth with less member of root hairs.

Foliar spray of KCl 1% twice at fortnightly interval