SOIL Studies

SOIL Studies

2016, Vol 5, Num, 2     (Pages: 065-074)

Iron, Copper, Zinc and Manganese Status of Tea-Farming Soils and Tea Plant Grown in East Black Sea Region

Meriç BALCI 1 ,Mehmet Burak TAŞKIN 1 ,Emre Can KAYA 1 ,Mahmut Reşat SOBA 2 ,Pınar ÖZER 3 ,Ali KABAOĞLU 3 ,Murat Ali TURAN 4 ,Süleyman TABAN 1

1 Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Toprak Bilimi ve Bitki Besleme Bölümü, ANKARA
2 Toprak, Gübre ve Su Kaynakları Merkez Araştırma Enstitüsü Müdürlüğü, ANKARA
3 Çay İşletmeleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Atatürk Çay Araştırma Enstitüsü Müdürlüğü, RİZE
4 Uludağ Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Toprak Bilimi ve Bitki Besleme Bölümü, BURSA

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Increasing yield and quality of tea plant that is the lifestyle of The East Black Sea Region people is related to aware of importance of micro nutrient elements that found tea farming soils as well as macro nutrients. In this study, it is aimed to determine iron, copper, zinc and manganese concentrations of tea plant and farming soils. For this purpose, 532 soil and plant samples were taken simultaneously from different regions (Artvin, Rize, Trabzon and Giresun) related to distribution of tea plantations. In soil samples, available Fe concentration varied in the range of 0.56-407 mg kg-1 with a mean of 86.7 mg kg-1, Cu concentration varied in the range of 0.01-19.4 mg kg-1 with a mean of 1.44 mg kg-1, Zn concentration varied in the range of 0.03-44.9 mg kg-1 with a mean of 1.61 mg kg-1, Mn concentration varied in the range of 0.33-186 mg kg-1 with a mean of 29.3 mg kg-1. According to the results of the soil analysis, while plant available Fe and Mn concentrations were found to be sufficient, in 11.1 % of soils Cu, in 49.6 % of soil Zn concentration were found too few. In the tea leaves that taken simultaneously with the soil samples from the East Black Sea Region, it was determined that total Fe concentration varied in the range of 20.80-1931 mg kg-1 with a mean of 136 mg kg-1, total Cu concentration varied in the range of 0,62-25,7 mg kg-1 with a mean of 7.66 mg kg-1, total Zn concentration varied in the range of 0.98- 53.5 mg kg-1 with a mean of 12.7 mg kg-1, total Mn concentration varied in the range of 146-5013 mg kg-1 with a mean of 1608 mg kg-1. According to the results, in 98.9 % of leaf samples Fe concentration, in 97.0 % of leaf samples Cu concentration, in 97.6 % of leaf samples Zn concentration were found to be insufficient.


Keywords : Cu, tea leaves, Fe, Mn, Zn