Introduction: Citrus is an important fruit crop cultivated in tropical regions of the world with immense nutritional value and advised on daily basis in diet. In Iran, it is cultivated in high reaches of northern and southern regions. The low productivity has been ascribed mainly to the nutritional health of the plantations which is the most concern among farmers. To plan fertilization efficiently, it is necessary to know the desirable concentration of macro and micro nutrient in tissues that are representative of the plant’s nutritional status.
Traditionally, to determine the optimum fertilizer doses the most appropriate method was to apply fertilizer on the basis of soil test and crop response studies (Regar and Singh, 2014) which defied the synergistic and antagonistic effects in relative availability of different essential nutrients from soil. …