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LIEBIG, in enunciating his mineral theory of the nutrition of crops in 1840, advanced the view that simple plant analysis would suffice to provide the data to determine the mineral requirements of crop plants and the amounts of mineral nutrients necessary to add to the soil to make good shortages due to removals by crops.
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WALLACE, T. Diagnosis of Mineral Deficiencies in Crop Plants. Nature 155, 444–446 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155444a0
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