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Natural Magnetite (Black Iron Oxide) With Highest levels of Fe3O4.
Iron Needed for Plant Growth
Iron is among the 19 crucial nutrients that plants require for healthy growth. As a micronutrient, it is essential in relatively low concentrations. It serves a critical function, not only as a constituent of chlorophyll, but also as a component of iron proteins that play roles in photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, and respiration. When iron is deficient, plants can develop interveinal chlorosis and necrosis. Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are the processes that enable plants to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a high-energy molecule used for energy storage in organisms. ATP is subsequently utilized as an energy source for other metabolic processes within the plant life cycle.
added iron in plants proven to be beneficial to human health
Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences Mary Lou Guerinot, the principal investigator on a study to improve iron content in plants, says, "Iron deficiency is the most common human nutritional disorder in the world today, afflicting more than three billion people worldwide. Most of these people rely on plants for their dietary iron. However, plants are not high in iron, and the limited availability of iron in the soil can limit plant growth".
Iron Oxide in Fertilizers
Alkaline soils make iron and other micronutrients unavailable to plants. Chlorosis is the yellowing of leaf tissue due to a lack of chlorophyll. Chlorosis in the younger leaves of a plant characterizes an iron deficiency. The tissue between the veins gradually turns yellow, while the veins tend to stay green. The tips and margins of some leaves may turn brown and become dry and brittle.
