The movement of solutes through the plant tissues can take place in two pathways, the one is cytoplasmic pathway and the other is cell wall pathway. Solute movement may occur through channels in the cell walls and is, therefore, extracellular. In this way it bypasses the protoplasts and overcomes the barriers in the cross membranes. In this process the solutes [...]
Early workers believed that inorganic salts were passively carried into the plant through diffusion with the absorption of water and further assumed that the translocation of the absorbed salts to different parts of the plant was dependent on transpiration. It is known that certain ions may attain a higher concentration in the cell sap of plant tissues than in the [...]
In this article we will discuss about the Essentiality of Mineral Elements required by a Plant. After reading this article you will learn about: 1. Criteria of Mineral Elements 2. Chemical Analysis of Mineral Elements 3. Detection. Criteria of Mineral Elements: An-element is considered as essential: (a) If without it, the plant cannot complete its life cycle (b) Action of [...]