Molybdenum Requirement of Leguminous Plants Supplied with Fixed Nitrogen

Abstract

This report offers evidence of the essentiality of molybdenum for the gr-owtlh of two important members of the Leguminosae. WILSON (5) from field experiments, convincingly.deduced that the scald disease of beans in New South Wales was due to a straightforward molybdenum deficiency of the bean plant uncomplicated by secondary effects of nitrogen transforming microorganisms as discussed by M\ULDER (4). EVANS et al. ( HEWITT (2) also has reported production of molybdenum deficiency symp-