Wolf Trax Micronutrients

These are just a few of the target crops for Zinc. If you don't see the crop you're looking for on the list, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653.

Zinc on Alfalfa

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Plants become stunted and may show dieback

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For This Crop See Also:
Boron

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Apples

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron
Poorly absorbed and difficult to get into the tree

Symptoms of Deficiency:
“Little leaf” symptoms, resulting in reduced shoot growth, delayed leafing in spring and rosettes of small narrow leaves with a characteristic leaf mottling

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth
Increases winter hardiness, bud strength, return bloom, fruit size and density

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium
Copper
Iron

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Beans (Vegetable Crop)

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Plants become stunted
Chlorosis of young leaves

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Brassicas (Vegetable Crop)

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Plants become stunted
Chlorosis of young leaves

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Canola

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Shortening of the internodes (rosetting) and a decrease in leaf size

Roles & Benefits:
Increases oil content and is important at flowering for seed set
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

Rate & Timing Information:
Foliar Rate (oz/ac)
Foliar Rate (kg/ac)
Foliar Rate (kg/ha)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (oz/ac)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (kg/ac)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (kg/ha)
Planter Box Rate (lbs)
Planter Box Rate (kgs)

Notes & Links:

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium
Iron
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Carrots

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Chlorosis of young leaves

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Cereals

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Symptoms often appear early on in the crop development
Yellow streaks are seen at the second leaf stage on wheat and barley
In barley, white streaks appear along the leaf edges, often bleached
Plants remain small and stunted, often with a "spiky" appearance
High numbers of late tillers are produced which remain immature

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Corn

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Light green to white streaks on either side of the midrib that may develop into a broad bank of bleached tissue most evident on lower leaves
Leaf midribs and margins remain green
Sometimes stalk and leaf edges appear to be tinted red or brown.

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For This Crop See Also:
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Cucumbers (Gherkin)

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Chlorosis of young leaves

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Field Beans

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Plants become stunted
Chlorosis of young leaves

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium
Iron
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Flax

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Plants have a rosetted appearance
Grayish-brown spots appear on young leaves
Upon drying, spots may change color to brown or white

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth
Helps intensify flowering and evens crop maturity

For This Crop See Also:
n/a

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Fruit Trees

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron
Poorly absorbed and difficult to get into the tree

Symptoms of Deficiency:
“Little leaf” symptoms, resulting in reduced shoot growth, delayed leafing in spring and rosettes of small narrow leaves with a characteristic leaf mottling

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth
Increases winter hardiness, bud strength, return bloom, fruit size and density

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Onions

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Plants become stunted
Spiral, twisting leaves

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth
Essential at bulb formation

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Potatoes

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Young leaves are chlorotic (light green or yellow), narrow, upwardly-cupped and
develop tip-burn
Other leaf symptoms are green veins, spotting with dead tissue, blotching, and erect
appearance

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Rice

Factors Affecting Availability:
Occurs in neutral and calcareous soils, intensively cropped soils, paddy soils
and very poorly drained soils, sodic and saline soils, peat soils, soils with high
available P and Si status, sandy soils, highly weathered, acid, and coarse-textured soils, soils derived from serpentine and laterite, and leached, old acid sulfate soils
with a small concentration of K, Mg, and Ca Associated with sulfur deficiency

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Dusty brown spots on upper leaves of stunted plants
Uneven plant growth
Decreased tillering and increased spikelet sterility in rice
Chlorotic midribs particularly near the leaf base of younger leaves
Leaves lose turgor and turn brown as brown blotches and streaks appear on lower
leaves, enlarge, and coalesce
White line sometimes appears along the leaf midrib
Leaf blade size is reduced
Growth is severely affected

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth and membrane
integrity

Rate & Timing Information:
Foliar Rate (oz/ac)
Foliar Rate (kg/ac)
Foliar Rate (kg/ha)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (oz/ac)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (kg/ac)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (kg/ha)
Planter Box Rate (lbs)
Planter Box Rate (kgs)

Notes & Links:
http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/riceDoctor_MX/Fact_Sheets/DeficienciesToxicitie
s/Zinc_Deficiency.htm

For This Crop See Also:
Calcium

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Soybeans

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Plants become stunted
Leaves are yellow or light green, and lower leaves may turn brown and drop
Flowers are scarce and pods that do set are abnormal and slow-maturing.

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653

Zinc on Strawberries

Factors Affecting Availability:
High pH soils
High levels of phosphate and iron

Symptoms of Deficiency:
Stunted plants with formation of small leaves
Chlorosis of young leaves

Roles & Benefits:
Essential for sugar regulation and enzymes that control plant growth
Increases winter hardiness, bud strength, return bloom, fruit size and density

Rate & Timing Information:
Foliar Rate (oz/ac)
Foliar Rate (kg/ac)
Foliar Rate (kg/ha)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (oz/ac)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (kg/ac)
Fertilizer Coating Rate (kg/ha)
Planter Box Rate (lbs)
Planter Box Rate (kgs)

Notes & Links:

For This Crop See Also:
Boron
Calcium
Manganese

For more information on using Wolf Trax products on this or any other crop, feel free to contact Wolf Trax at infomaster@wolftrax.org or phone 204-237-9653