Mineral nutrition of plants
2005
Epstein, Emanuel | Bloom, Arnold J. (Arnold Jeffrey)
Nearly all the chemical elements that make up living things are mineral elements, the ultimate source of which is rock weathered into soil. In this book, the authors explain that plant roots "mine" these nutrient elements from their inorganic substrate and introduce them into the realm of living things. The authors trace the subsequent movement of these nutrients into other plant organs, tissues, cells, and organelles, their biochemical assimilation, and their functions in plant physiology and metabolism. Treatment of these processes extends from molecular biology through global biogeochemistry.
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