Centre de Rccherache de Bordeaux, 33-Pont-de-la-Maye (France)
*Present address: Department of Horticulture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.
When iron was applied through roots to iron deficient peach plants, in the first eight days most of the iron absorbed remained in root bark. Leaves had only a minor fraction of it, and its concentration in the stem was still less. In stem half of the iron was in the bark and the other half was in the xylem. Both for stem and the leaves there was more of iron near the apex of the plant than the base. Distribution of foliar applied iron in leaves was somewhat dissimilar from that of iron applied through roots.
