Purpose of Potassium: Cause of potassium deficiency: Insuffiecient K in the soil. Sand soil or limestone usually happen as water easy leached away. Detection: Potassium deficiency can be extremely similar with manganese deficiency from a distance. But close examination should reveal characteristic spotting and marginal necrosis in K deficiency or necrotic streaking for Mn deficiency. […]
Nitrogen is one of the most abundant elements in plants as it is a major component of proteins. The amount of nitrogen required by a crop is large compared with the natural nitrogen reserves in most soils, and so mot crops respond positively to additional nitrogen, whether from animal manures or inorganic fertilizers. Purpose of […]
Phosphorus is second most essential nutrient next to nitrogen needed by plants. It plays as a key role in photosynthesis, respiration, energy storage and transfer, cell division, cell enlargement and genetic reproduction. Plants must have phosphorus for normal growth and maturity. A plant must have phosphorus to complete its normal production cycle. · Function of […]
Purpose of Magnesium (Mg) Magnesium is essential nutrient in process of forming central atom of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is the process that gives plants their green color and carries out the process of photosynthesis. It also plays a role as activator of enzyme where essential in carbon fixation. Carbon fixation in scientific explanation is conversion process […]
