TY - JOUR 
AU - Saleem Maseeh Bhatti
AU - Zulfiqar Ali Mari
AU - Zohaib Ur Rehman Bughio
AU - Nizamuddin Depar
AU - Inayatullah Rajpar
AU - Muhammad Asif Siddiqui
AU - Iqra Sultan Rajput
TI - Enhancing iron concentration in bread wheat through Fe-EDTA fortification
JO - Eurasian Journal of Soil Science
VL - 13
IS - 1
PB - Federation of Eurasian Soil Science Societies 
SN - 2147-4249 
UR - http://ejss.fesss.org/10.18393/1394446
DO - 10.18393/1394446
SP , EP - 52 - 58
KW  - Fe-EDTA, Fe-malnutrition, biofortification, wheat production, Fe fertilization.
PY  - 2023
AB  - Iron (Fe) malnutrition in humans is a global concern which can be revised by improved Fe density in staple crops. A field experiment was performed to evaluate the effect of chelated iron on growth, yield and iron concentration in bread wheat (cv. Moomal) at Tando Jam Pakistan. The treatments included, Control (No Fe-EDTA), Soil supplement of Fe-EDTA (@ 2 kg Fe ha-1), Soil + foliar supplement of Fe-EDTA (@ 2 kg ha-1 and 0.2% Fe at booting, flowering, and milky stage), and Foliar supplement of Fe-EDTA (@ 0.2% Fe at booting, flowering and milky stages). The defined growth and yield traits of wheat were increased with Fe-EDTA applications over control treatment. Among different Fe-EDTA application methods, there was no significant difference for most of the growth and yield parameters (excluding spike length, number of spikelets spike-1, and 1000 grain weight). The amount of Fe in wheat grains was significantly higher in all Fe-EDTA treatments over control, with maximum value (86.54 ± 5.57 mg kg-1) in the treatment where Fe-EDTA was applied in soil + foliar. Similarly, a high Fe build up in surface soil was obtained with treatment of Fe-EDTA in soil + foliar. Overall, with various Fe-EDTA treatments, an increase of 21.2 to 29.1% in grain yield and 1.9 to 4.3 times in Fe concentration of wheat grains was achieved in current study. It is suggested that the Fe should be included in wheat production technology to attain better yield and Fe concentration in grains. 
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