Plant Nutrition

By Martin, Excell, Diven, Clarine, Felicia

 Plants have nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, water, and finally lipids(oil).
 However they are all not kept in one location, they are all scattered throughout the
plant’s body. For example, a plant stores its lipids in the seeds, so when it germinate, there
is plenty enough energy as 1 gram of a lipid provides 37 KJ of energy.
 Another example is that plants contain most of their carbohydrates ( as starch ) in their
seeds or tubers.
Carbohydrates

 Plants use glucose (carbohydrate, specifically a monosaccharide) to perform respiration,

it is done so that they would obtain energy. Although plants transports sucrose( a
disaccharide) not glucose around their bodies, but the plant cells can change the
sucrose into glucose whenever they need to get energy from it.
 Plants keep carbohydrates as starch, a polysaccharide. It is very simple for the plant to
convert starch into glucose or vise versa. But in some cases, plants store vast amounts of
starch in their seeds or tubers and is promptly used by other living organisms.
 The reason why plants keep carbohydrates is because it helps them to respirate, to get
food, and to provide food( energy ) to other living organisms, practically being beneficial
to itself and to other living organisms.
Proteins

 Proteins are found in Plants because the protein is used for growing new cells within the
plant, as well as to repair damaged ones.
 Plants also use proteins in order to make Chlorophyll in their leaves, the protein used is
called a Magnesium Ion. Proteins also does unlimited tasks and reactions within the plant
itself.
 Inside the plants’cell the cell wall is there to protect it. Proteins are actually a component
of that cell wall. Proteins acts as an enzyme in the catalysis of metabolic reactions, or as a
transport molecules, storage proteins, electron carriers, and structural components of the
cell.
 Practically proteins are vital to plants.
Water

 Water helps to keep the plants’s structure firm and to ensure their growth to be successful
and fruitful. Water also helps to carry nutrients or dissolved substances within the plant,
either through the xylem vessels or within the stem.
 Water also helps the plants to perform Transpiration, that is the process in which the plant
enables the water to evaporate so that it’ll cool down. Without water, the plants’
temperature may get too hot until to the point where parts of the plant would stop
working properly.
 Water allows plants to carry out Photosynthesis. Which is the process of the plant
producing its own food and to make a gas called oxygen so that other living organisms
can breathe.
Lipids

 Plants make and contain Lipids because it provides energy to the metabolic reactions
occuring within the plant to keep it alive.
 Lipids are also vital components to the membranes within the plant cell.
 Lipids are to be stored in a plants’s seed ( once the fertilisation process is finished ) to
provide energy to the seed once it is germinating.
Nutrient Deficiency

 Whenever plants are missing a certain nutrient, then it has a deficiency.

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