Boron Toxicity

Boron is one of the seven essential micronutrients required for the normal growth of most plants. Boron has a marked effect on plant quality, from the standpoint of both plant nutrition—if boron is deficient in soil—and toxicity—if it is present in excessive amounts. There is a relatively small range between Boron levels in causing deficiency and toxicity symptoms in plants.

Magnation’s physical water treatment corrects and mitigates Boron toxicity naturally without the use of chemicals, acids, expensive resins, or sulfur dispersing salts.  As a result, farmers save time, maintenance hours, and money while improving quality and crop yields in optimizing soil management.

Magnation Water Technologies reduces the amount of water used by improving soil penetration, moisture retention and leaching, hence extending irrigation intervals using 20-30% less water.

Magnation separates, pulverizes all mineral salts in the water for better leaching in the soil, it also helps balances the anion and cations while neutralizing pH; and converting calcium carbonate into an aragonite form in the water.  This helps with nutrient absorption and plant quality and minimizes the impact of boron toxicity.

Magnation water solutions increases dissolved oxygen & negative hydrogen ions increasing general quality of water for soil and plant roots.

Magnation improves biochemical indices of plants under the stress of boron toxicity.  Magnation treated water enhances the agricultural production, as well as seed germination, accelerating the vegetative growth of seedlings, which also improves the mineral content of seeds, fruits, and nuts.

Other strategies to alleviate boron toxicity from well water, include the use of alternative  sources of water for irrigation with lower levels of Boron.  Soil amendments of gypsum, sulfur or lime and organic matter have also been shown to help mitigate boron toxicity. Lastly, the selection of alternative boron resistant crops can be considered

High boron concentrations can be found in wastewater of some industries including semiconductor, ceramic, pesticides, fire retardants, borosilicate glass, nuclear power and detergent manufacturers. Many investigations has been done for boron removal from water and wastewater by different methods.  Magnation Water Technologies offer greater options in reclamation initiatives.