Nutrition and Transport - Woodstown
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Nutrition and Transport
Nutrients
95% of plant’s dry weight is carbon,
hydrogen, and oxygen (carbohydrates, CO2
and water)
Minerals – provide proteins and nucleic acids
Essential nutrients – had role, no substitute, and a
deficiency results in death.
Macro and micronutrients according to concentration
Beneficial – required or enhances growth
soil
Mixture of mineral particles, decaying organic
material, living organisms, air and water
Humus – decaying organic matter
Mineral particles –
Sand – largest sized particles, water drains
Silt - intermediate
Clay – fine particles, not good drainage, - charge,
can retain + charged minerals.
Loam – equal portions of silt, clay and sand, good
Soil profile
Vertical section of ground
Horizons, parallel layers
A – uppermost, litter and humus
B – inorganic nutrients leached form A
C – weathered and shattered rock
Soil erosion – water and/or wind carry soil
away to new location
Loss of topsoil
Water and mineral uptake
Casparian strip – suberin and lignin border
sides of root endodermal cells, force water to
enter cells
Root hairs – allow water in at epidermal cells
Minerals enter plants in ionic forms via
electrochemical gradient with ATP pump
Root nodules – fix atmospheric nitrogen to NH4.
Epiphytes – air plants, roots can absorb water or
in pockets at base of leaves.
Transport mechanisms
Xylem
Tracheids – contain pits at ends that allow fluid to
flow from cell to cell
Vessel elements – long, tubular, form hollow
pipeline
Phloem
Sieve tube members Companion cells – provide proteins to sieve-tube
members
Water transport
Root pressure – formed when water enters the root,
usually at night
Guttation – drops of water are forced out of vein endings
along edges of leaves
Cohesion-tension model of xylem transport
Tension is created from the loss of water out of the leaves
(transpiration), draws water up from roots in vessels
Cohesion – water molecules cling together
Adhesion – water molecules cling to walls of vessel
elements
Continuous water column
Stomata
Bordered by guard cells
Potassium ions accumulate within guard
cells, water follows, stomata open
Turgor pressure is increased in guard cells
Hydrogen ions accumulate outside guard
cells
Stoma close when turgor pressure decreases
K+ decreased and water leaves guard cells
Organic Nutrient Transport
Girdling – removing a strip of bark from
around a tree
Pressure Flow Model of Phloem Transport
Source (photosynthesis production – leaves) to
Sink (growth areas) – usually leaves to roots
Sucrose is actively transported from leaves to
area of need, water follows per osmosis
Sugar is used for respiration, water exits via
osmosis to xylem