The soil nutrients, the contents and seasonal dynamics of mineral elements as well as the relationship among the elements in leaves of fruit-bearing trees of Citrus grandis Osbeck cv. Shatianyou in Meizhou were studied. Results show that there was no obvious difference in rhizospheric soil nutrients between normal trees and retrogressive trees, but the coments of various elements in leaves in different fruiting period were different. The change in various elements in the retrogressive trees in fruiting
