Transcription of Plant nutrients - World Agroforestry Centre
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7 Plant NUTRIENTS61 Plant nutrientsAll plants require nutrients to survive and grow. plants take nutrients from the air, thesoil, and the water. Because you cannot see nutrients they are colourless gases or are likedust dissolved in water or stuck onto each piece of soil it is sometimes hard to under-stand how they quantity of nutrients available to the plants is affected by: substrate quality water quality Plant are taken up by the fine root hairs, not by the big roots. Even the verylargest of trees have many small, fine root hairs to absorb the nutrients and water they larger roots are used for supporting the tree and for storage of water and other plantfood.
7 PLANT NUTRIENTS 63 Common nutrient deficiency symptoms Macronutrients Nitrogen: This is a mobile nutrient, which means that when nitrogen is deficient, plants move it from the older foliage to the younger, actively growing leaves.
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