To be essential, an element must be acting within the plant, not outside it. What does this mean? Discuss the roles of iron and phosphorus in determining which elements are essential for a plant.

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To be essential, an element must be acting within the plant, not outside it. What does this mean? Discuss the roles of iron and phosphorus in determining which elements are essential for a plant.

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Minerals form an important part of nutrition as these form part of certain functional entities as well as some enzymes.

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The statement that "To be essential, an element must be acting within the plant, not outside it" means that elements must participate in growth and reproduction of the plant.

It must be involved intricately involved and must be irreplaceable by other element.

Further, the element must not only be important for structure but for growth and metabolic reactions that occur in plant cell.

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