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Role of Nutrients in Plant Growth and Development

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Nutrients are the essential elemental components of soil required for plant growth and architecture. Deficiency of these elements creates certain identifiable symptoms. Commonly, these elements are found in soil in the form of their respective salts. Depending on the basic requirement of plants, nutrients are divided into two categories: micronutrients and macronutrients. Soil and plant tissue analysis reveals certain facts about the presence of each element in plant and their permissible limit in soil. Optimum limit of each element is beneficial for plant growth as well as soil fertility. Adverse effects have been observed when concentration of these elements either increases or decreases beyond its permissible range in soil. In such conditions, soil amendment techniques have been proved beneficial. Availability of these nutrients in in soil is regulated by soil pH; therefore, special attention should be given to pH of the soil.

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Shrivastav, P. et al. (2020). Role of Nutrients in Plant Growth and Development. In: Naeem, M., Ansari, A., Gill, S. (eds) Contaminants in Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41552-5_2

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