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What does chlorosis mean?

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  1. (medicine) An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green colouration of the skin; greensickness (Wikipedia).
  2. (botany) A yellowing of plant tissue due to loss or absence of chlorophyll (Wikipedia).
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Iron deficiency is characterized by an interveinal chlorosis of young leaves while the veins remain green.
Although it is rare, too much zinc can cause symptoms similar to iron or magnesium chlorosis.
At the end of the experimental period leaves of these plants showed symptoms of chlorosis.
When leaves turn yellow while veins remain green, it's a sign of chlorosis, a condition caused by an iron deficiency in the soil.
Low places in fields where water pools and evaporates off the surface are the most likely places to find chlorosis.
It is only moderately productive and for some years has been affected with chlorosis.

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