Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2019

ESTIMATION OF METALS IN PLANTS

Dr. Bhawana Mathur

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Accurate monitoring of metal concentration in soils and plants is essential as this plays a very significant role in various physiological processes in plants. Their presence at particular concentration level is a must to complete the life cycles. These roles of various metals are wide ranging from very simple to highly complex and almost all of them are fairly specific for a given nutrient. The beneficial effects of micronutrients stem from their involvement in redox processes, carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolism as well as exchanging the resistance of plants to diseases and adverse environmental conditions. Micronutrients increase the chlorophyll content in leaves, improve photosynthesis and intensify the assimilating activity of the whole plant. Many micronutrients are constituent parts of the active centres of enzymes and vitamins. Deficiency of these micronutrients is responsible for a number of plant diseases and often causes crops to perish. Their deficiency disrupts those processes for which that nutrient is essential, with the result that plant growth, development, yield and quality suffer. In a majority of cases certain characteristic deficiency symptoms occur on various plant parts.

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ESTIMATION OF METALS IN PLANTS, Dr.Bhawana Mathur INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-5 | May-2019

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