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Plant Analysis Methods for Evaluating Mineral Nutrient
Ye-Jin Lee1*
,
Jwa-Kyung Sung1
,
Seul-Bi Lee1
,
Jung-Eun Lim1
,
Yo-Sung Song1
,
Deog-Bae Lee1
,
Suk-Young Hong1
,
,
,
,
,
,
1Division of Soil & Fertilizer, National Institute of Agricultural Science
*Corresponding Author. 
April 2017. pp. 93-99
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Abstract

Analysis of mineral nutrients in plant is required for evaluating diagnosis of plant nutritional status. Pretreatment procedure for the analysis of plant can be varied depending on elements to be analyzed. Wet-digestion is suitable for total nitrogen, phosphate and cations, however, digestion solution including nitric acid is not suitable for nitrogen analysis. Incineration procedure is required to analyze chloride, silicate and total sulfur. After digestion, total nitrogen is analyzed by Kjeldahl method, and phosphate is detected at 470nm by colorimetric analysis with ammonium meta vanadate. Cations and micro elements are determined by titration or colorimetry, also, these elements can be measured by Atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS) or Inductively coupled plasma spectrometer (ICP).

Plant sample preparation methods depending on elements to be analyzed.

Keywords
Plant
Mineral nutrient
Analysis
Digestion
Element

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  • Publisher :Korean Society of Soil Science and Fertilizer
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국토양비료학회
  • Journal Title :Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국토양비료학회 학회지
  • Volume : 50
  • No :2
  • Pages :93-99
  • Received Date : 2017-02-08
  • Revised Date : 2017-03-02
  • Accepted Date : 2017-04-25
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7745/KJSSF.2017.50.2.093
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