Chapter 37
Nutritional resources of plants
Essential elements
- Play
manemany roles in plant metabolism - often function as enzyme factors
Macronutrients
- required in amounts of atleast 1g per 1kg of dry plant mass
Micronutrients
- trace elements
- required in amounts at or less than 0.1g per 1kg of dry plant mass
Limiting factors
- resources that can limit plant growth
- too little or too much
- carbon dioxide
- water
- other mineral nutrients