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Re: essential plant nutrients

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: essential plant nutrients
From: ac554 at freenet_carleton.ca (David Whittaker)
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 05:57:10 -0400 (EDT)

David Brooks responded to a request for a list of the 17
elements essential for plant growth.

>the 17 essential plant nutrients fot plants to live are:
>Major		Minor
>Nitrogen(N)	Sodium (Na) 		
>Phosphorus (P)	Aluminium (Al)
>Potassium (K)	Silicon (Si)
>Carbon (C)	Chlorine (Cl)
>Hydrogen (H)     Cobalt (Co).
>Oxygen (O)	Gallium (Ga)
>Calcium (Ca)	
>Sulfur (S)	
>Magnesium (Mg)	
>Iron (Fe)	
>
>David Brooks


David, you left out most of the required micronutrients.

Manganese (Mn)
Copper (Cu)
Zinc (Zn)
Boron (B)
Molybdenum (Mo)

The necessity of the following is questionable.

Aluminium (Al)
Cobalt (Co)
Gallium (Ga)
Silicon (Si)

--
Dave Whittaker
ac554 at FreeNet_Carleton.ca

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