FBS 114 Assignment
Plants, like all other living things, need food for their growth and development. Plants
require 16 essential elements (Uchida, 2000). The supply and absorption of chemical compounds
needed for growth and metabolism may be defined as nutrition and the chemical compounds
required by an organism termed nutrients (Rao, 2009). Macronutrients and micronutrients have
been found to be absolutely essential for plant growth and metabolism. However, when the supply
of an essential element becomes limited, the plant growth is retarded.
In your assignment, you are going to give the functions of the given essential elements
(not all) needed for plant growth. Also, you are going to give the negative effect of these elements
to plants when they are excessive and deficient.
Minerals
Functions
Effects
Excessive
when Effects
deficient
when
Phosphorus
Potassium
Magnesium
Sulfur
Calcium
Nitrogen
To submit this assignment, you need to create your personal google drive folder. There is a google
sheet provided where you need to fill out with your basic information including the link of your
folder.
Deadline of submission is on March 23, 2022, at 6PM.