PLANT NUTRITION

Endang Sulistyaningsih
Lab. Ilmu Tanaman
Whats happen with these plants?
 REFERENCES

Plant Physiology.2002. lincoln Taiz & Eduardo Zeiger

Principle of Plant Nutrient.1987. Konrad Mengel&Ernest A. Kirby
Mineral Nutrient in Higher Plants. 1986. Horst Marschner
Plant and Soil Water Relationship. 1975. Paul J. Kramer
Mineral Nutrition of Crops. (Fundamental Mechanisms and
Implications2000. Zdenko Rengel
Why is Plant Nutrition
Important?
y 3 main reasons
y 1. To maximise productivity
y 2. To improve quality
y 3. To improve human nutrition
Classification of the ash
elements
y 1. Essential Elements
y 2. Beneficial Elements
y 3. Non-essential Elements
 Plant essential elements and
its identification

y 1. Criteria for plant essential elements

y 2. Methods for identifying plant essential elements
y 3. Kinds of plant essential elements
Criteria for plant essential
elements
y The elements, in brief, is necessary for plants to grow and
develop.
y Three criteria (Arnon and Stout, 1939):
y 1. A deficiency of the element makes it impossible for the
plant to complete a normal life cycle.
y 2. The deficiency is specific for the element in question.
y 3. The element is directly involved in the nutrition of
the plant, for example, as a constitute of an essential
metabolite or required for the function of an enzyme
system.
Two criteria (by Epstein,
2005):
y 1. The element is part of a molecule that is an
intrinsic component of the structure or
metabolism of a plant.
y 2. The plant can be so severely deprived of the
element that it exhibits abnormalities in its
growth, development, or reproduction-that
is, its performance-in comparison with
plants not so deprived
y How to test?
y Plants are grown with
the element of interest
omitted from the
formulation of the
culture medium, or
present in inadequate
amount or
concentration
Methods for identifying plant
essential elements

y Water (solution ) culture or hydroponics

y Sand culture
Solution culture & sand culture
Sistem hidroponik kapiler yang menggunakan :
Larutan nutrisi hidroponik
Pasir kwarsa
Garam NaCl dan CaCl2

Air 0,5 cm dari

dasar pot
y Be careful
y 1. Choosing optimum cultural solution;
y 2. Renewing cultural solution and adjusting pH in
time
y 3. Airing
y 4. Keeping root in darkness
y 5. Considering the nutrient contained in seeds.

y TheoryStudy for function of the elements and

mechanism of its absorption.

y Application: production for vegetable, flower and

food in greenhouse, desert etc.