Mineral nutrition of vegetable crops: XXXII. absorption of nutrients by tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.) cultivated for industrial processing

Abstract

In order to find out the concentration of macro and micronutrients, as well the total amounts of nutrients absorved by Roma VF, of the Santa Cruz group of tomato, plants were collected from field from 15 days up to 105 days and analysed for the nutrients. At the flowering period the leaves presented the following concentration on nutrients: 3.7% N; 0.5% P; 3.2% Ca; 0,9% Mg; 0,4% S; 72 ppm B; 15 ppm Cu; 434 ppm Fe; 375 ppm Mn; 0.1 ppm Mo and 148 ppm Zn. A production of 65 t/ha effective hasrvested content: 67.8 kg N; 8.9 kg P; 112.2 kg K; 7.7 kg Ca; 6.0 kg Mg; 3.1 kg S; 93 g B; 45 g Cu; 547 g Fe; 163 g Mn; 485 mg Mo; 321 g Zn.