There is a real problem when adding micro elements to the soil as a result of fixation, sedimentation, washing or toxicity, and thus economic loss. The plant needs micro elements in very small quantities that do not burn the leaves or cause poisoning to plants, including iron, zinc and boron, as they are essential elements for growth and completing the plant's life cycle, and increase the plant's resistance to diseases and insects, activate enzymes, and form the chlorophyll molecule, in addition to their role in oxidation and reduction processes and vital processes. The use of fertilizers with their modern technology has made the process of activating seeds or foliar nutrition a matter of interest to researchers as a complementary process to adding fertilizers through the soil. Micronutrients contribute to the manifestation of the potential energy for the growth and yield of sunflowers, including iron, zinc and boron, and their role in improving germination, seedling growth, field establishment, photosynthesis, fertility, crop production and quality, taking into account the method of adding them, whether through soil addition, foliar nutrition or pre-treatment of seeds. The seed priming technique by soaking in solutions of micronutrient elements or adding them by spraying the vegetative part of the plant is characterized by overcoming the effects of the soil on the availability and absorption of these nutrients, and they are efficient and effective methods of plant nutrition. There is a practical and knowledge gap about the low soil stock of these nutrients, and it has become clear that they can be added in a single combination by seed priming or the vegetative growth stage to bridge this gap and enhance their role in regulating the physiological and vital processes that lead to ensuring increased growth, production and quality and obtaining seeds with high vitality and vigor. It can be concluded that the environmental conditions for growing sunflowers in Iraq are suitable and reveal the possibility of expanding its cultivation, especially when avoiding the weakness, delay and heterogeneity of germination resulting from low seed vitality, environmental conditions accompanying crop cultivation, nutritional deficiency and others through managing the mother plant.
