Plants don’t possess an immune system like we do. They don’t have antibodies or white blood cells that actively seek out and kill diseases that infect them. Plants fight their biological battles with chemistry. Plants manufacture chemicals that are toxic (called secondary metabolites) and move these chemicals throughout their systems in order to kill whatever [...]
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Plant Nutrition: Needs and Deficiencies
The basic idea: The essential nutrients required by plants are as follows: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, copper, boron, chlorine, and molybdenum. Deficiencies in any one of these elements results in biological complications, such as decreased crop yields, stunted growth, disease, and sometimes death when deficiencies are severe. [...]
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