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The availability of mineral plant food

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

N. M. Comber
N. M. Comber
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The University, Leeds.
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The assumption that plants feed in the soil just as they feed in water culture solution is unjustified and contrary to the facts. In modification of the usual hypothesis two possibilities are discussed.

1. The absorption of colloids by the plant.

2. The union of the root hair with soil and other mineral particles (so that the plant and the soil form one system) and the dissolution of the particle by the organic matter of the root hair so attached.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 1922 , pp. 363 - 369
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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