Cobalt Sulfate

Description

Cobalt, derived from: Cobalt Sulfate 33% Co
33% Cobalt (Co), 18% Sulfur (S)
Chemical Formula: CoSO₄

Intended for use as an agricultural mineral. Rates may vary according to area, climate, and crop being treated.

Cobalt (Co) is a potentially essential micronutrient of plants. Co is essential for the growth of many lower plants, such as marine algal species including diatoms, chrysophytes, and dinoflagellates, as well as for higher plants in the family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. The essentiality to leguminous plants is attributed to its role in nitrogen (N) fixation by symbiotic microbes, primarily rhizobia. Co is an integral component of cobalamin or vitamin B₁₂, which is required by several enzymes involved in N₂ fixation. In addition to symbiosis, a group of N₂ fixing bacteria known as diazotrophs is able to situate in plant tissue as endophytes or closely associated with roots of plants including economically important crops, such as barley, corn, rice, sugarcane, and wheat. Their action in N₂ fixation provides crops with the macronutrient of N.

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8635114/