Plants Need Boron to Thrive:It's likely not the first nutrient you think about, but boron is critical to many plant functions

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When a nutrient registers a mere 0.5 ppm to 2.0 ppm on most soil tests, farmers might not give it much notice. But plants do because power-punching boron helps make possible a laundry list of critical functions, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist KenFerrie. For example, boron:maintains the balance between sugars and starches in plant cells, then translocates sugars and starches throughout the plant.