Mineral Nutrition
IMPORTANT TERMS:
Aeroponics:The technique of growing plants in above ground strands provided with fine mist of normal solution.
· Autotrophs:The organisms which prepare their own food through photosynthesis.
· Ammonification:The process by which proteins and amino acids of dead bodies are decomposed into ammonia.
· Bacteroids:Some bacteria which become enlarged to become membrane bound in the root nodules of leguminous plants.
· Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Fixation of atmospheric nitrogen into the soil by bacteria and cyanobacteria.
· Chelator:An organic element whose addition to culture solution ensures availability of another unavailable inorganic element.
· Essential Elements: The nutrients essential for the healthy growth of the plants.
· Heterotrophs:The organisms which cannot make their own food, but obtain their nutrition from autotrophs.
· Hydroponics:The method of growing plants by placing their roots directly in nutrient solution.
· Leghaemoglobin:A pink coloured oxygen scavenger present in the root nodules of legume plants.
· Macro Nutrients: The essential elements present in plant tissues in easily detectable quantity.
· Micro Nutrients: The essential elements present in plant tissues only in traces.
· Mineral Nutrients: The process by which plants obtain and utilize mineral elements for their growth and development.
· Non-mineral Elements: The essential elements obtained by the plants from air or water.
· Nitrification:The process of conversion of ammonia to nitrates.
· Primary Deficiency: Deficiency caused by a critical element (N, P or K).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
· Liebig:Recorded minerals in plant ash and proposed the ‘law of minimum’. He is known as ‘Father of Biochemistry’.
· Gericke (1940): Developed hydroponics.
· Aeroponics: It is a technique of growing plants in above ground strands provided with fine mist of normal solution.
· Nehar and Sakmann: Got Nobel prize for discovering single ion channels in the plasma membrane.
· Winogradsky (1891): Discovered biological nitrogen fixation.
· Most free ion: Potassium.
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