Functions and deficiency symptoms of nitrogen
○ Functions of nitrogen
- Gives dark green appearance to plant parts
as a component of chlorophyll
- Promotes rapid growth or increased height and tiller number
- Increases size and grains
- Increases number of spikelets per panicle
- Increases filled spikelets percentage in panicles
- Increases protein content in the grains
○ Deficiency symptoms of nitrogen
- Stunted plants with limited number of tillers
- Narrow and short leaves which are erect and
become yellowish green as they age
- Old leaves become light straw colored and die
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