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Vanadium (V)

Plant Nutrition

Role in plants

Vanadium can substitute for molybdenum in some nitrogen-fixing systems and may stimulate growth at very low concentrations.

Deficiency symptoms

  • Not well defined
  • Reduced nitrogen metabolism efficiency in responsive species

Toxicity symptoms

  • Growth suppression
  • Leaf chlorosis and necrosis at elevated levels

Natural sources

  • Parent rock materials
  • Volcanic soils

Agronomic note

Vanadium is rarely managed directly and is primarily of academic or specialist interest.

Plant interaction forms

  • VO₄³⁻ and related oxyanions

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