The use of human excrement as plant fertiliser is gaining popularity as a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly alternative to synthetic fertilisers.
Tag - macronutrients
Nigel Chaffey
Maize is better when it’s hairy
Root hairs help maize take up phosphorus from the soil.
Fi Gennu
The parasitic plant Cuscuta sets up barriers to some minerals when infecting a host
If the parasitic plant dodder taps its host with a straw, then it's a specialised straw than can filter out some nutrients that the plant isn't using.
Dale Maylea
Carnivory, more than meets the eye…
No morsel of the victim is wasted when a plant traps its prey.
Spotlight on macronutrients: Touchy-feely calcium…
Calcium (Ca) acts – amongst other things! – as a so-called ‘second messenger’, and participates in many processes of plant growth and development.
Spotlight on macronutrients : Carbon (mainly)
Whilst members of the Plant Kingdom might dominate terrestrial biomes, non-Plant Kingdom members are the major photosynthetic organisms in aquatic habitats
