Chapter Revision Sheet # 29: Mineral Nutrition

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Mineral Nutrition
Revision Sheet

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➔ Method to study the Mineral requirement by plants. - 0
➔ Essential mineral elements - 14
➔ Mechanism of absorption of elements - 1
➔ Translocation of solutes - 0
➔ Soil as a reservoir of essential elements - 0
➔ Metabolism of Nitrogen - 11

Method to study the mineral requirements of plants :-

1. Understand hydroponics and contribution of Julius Von Sachs.
2. Application of hydroponics.

Essential mineral elements :-

1. How to classify an element as essential, the various criterias.
2. Differentiate nutrients as macronutrients and micronutrients.
3. Understand the four basic categories of elements with their e.g
4. Role of macro and micro nutrients
5. Role of each element in normal physiology
6. Its specific functions
7. Its deficiency symptoms.
8. Its absorption form and storage form (if given)

Deficiency symptoms :-
➔ Understand critical concentration.
➔ Deficiency symptoms of given elements.
➔ Understand how symptoms of mobile elements can be different from those of
immobile one.
➔ Understand chlorosis, necrosis, other symptoms and the elements causing them.

Toxicity of Micronutrients :-
1. How can high concentration of elements form a plant.
2. Manganese toxicity, its symptoms and effect on plants.

Mechanism of absorption :-
➔ The various phases of absorption, their site and understand where energy is required
and why.

Soil as a reservoir of essential elements :-

➔ Properties of soil which help it support plant life.
➔ Application of fertilisers.
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Metabolism of Nitrogen :-
➔ Nitrogen cycle -
Understand Nitrogen fixation, Nitrification, denitrification and ammonification
and different agents that carry out these processes.
➔ Biological Nitrogen fixation
● Different biological agents that carry out nitrogen fixation and their
various mechanism. (examples)
● Basic understanding of life cycle of Rhizobium and how it forms
symbiosis with plants.
● Steps of converting N 2 to N H 3 in N 2 fixing bacteria, with energy
required in the process.

Rate of N H 3 formed :-
➔ Process of deamination and transamination with their significance.