“…Another important issue when studying plant nutrition is the length of the cultivation time. In most studies, short-time experiments were conducted (17 days, Moritsuka et al, 2000;18 days, Gaume et al, 2001;35 days, Watt and Evans, 2003;42 days, Cu et al, 2005), whereas longer time scales, were used only in a few cases (from 57 to 64 days, Braume and Helmke, 1995; from 127 to 224 days, Bolland, 1997).…”