Minerals useful as plant nutrients
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Plants use inorganic minerals for nutrition. Complex interactions involving weathering of rock minerals, decaying organic matter, animals, and microbes take place to form inorganic minerals in soil. Roots absorb mineral nutrients as ions in soil water. Many factors influence nutrient uptake for plants.
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The plants require 20 mineral elements for proper nutrition.
The most common ones are that are provided to them by air are Carbon (C), Oxygen (O), and Hydrogen (H).
There are 6 macronutrients needed in large quantities by the plants. They are Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), and Sulfur (S).
There are also seven micronutrients are required by plants in extremely low quantities but are in fact essential. They are iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Zinc (Zn), Copper (Cu), Molybdenum (Mo), Boron (B), Chlorine (Cl).
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