Calcium nutrition of higher plants.

Calcium Nutrition in Plants

Calcium in plants is quite similar to calcium in people – it is essential for good growth and structure. Calcium does not move easily throughout the plant, once it is incorporated into cell walls, it does not move out again. The health and integrity of the cell membrane is very critical to the survival of the plant and it is well understood that cell membrane cannot be maintained without adequa...

Chlorine Nutrition of Higher Plants: Progress and Perspectives

CHLORINE NUTRITION OF HIGHER PLANTS: PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES Wenrong Chen a; Zhenli L. He a; Xiao E. Yang b; Suren Mishra c;Peter J. Stoffella a a Indian River Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA b Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, College of Environme...

Application of Medicinal Plants in Poultry Nutrition

Application of most antibiotic growth promoters as feed additives has been banned in a lot of countries due to cross-resistance against pathogens and residues in tissues. Therefore, scientists are searching for alternatives to antibiotics nowadays. Medicinal plant extracts are one of the alternatives that have anti-microbial and growth promoting effect on poultry. In this paper, the benefits of...

Higher Plants

Contamination with 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) is widespread at sites of past munitions manufacture. It is moderately toxic to plants and highly toxic to some animals. Some aquatic plant species have been observed to promote degradation of TNT. The degradative activity is associated with the root systems but products are found in the surrounding medium. We have examined a range of sixteen gener...

Role of the rhizosphere in iron nutrition of plants