Slide 1Plant Nutrition INTRO TO SOILS CH 12 Slide 2 Plant Nutrition Many soil factors affect plant growth Difficult/expensive to improve However... Supply of soil nutrients…

Slide 1+ Review Ch 12 Slide 2 + 1 After growing a carbohydrate rich grain that uses soil nitrogen immediately growing a nitrogen-fixing plant like a legume to protect and…

Slide 1 Terraforming: Peat bogs Arable soil from regolith Slide 2 Organics Regolith: finely ground rock No organics, no carbon No soil nitrogen found so far Low potassium,…

Slide 1 Unit 31 Nitrogenous fertilizers & sulphuric acid Slide 2 How do green plants make their own food? By Photosynthesis Green plants make use of carbon dioxide and…

Slide 1 Food Production and the Environment The Carbon Cycle Slide 2 Slide 3 Carbon dioxide in the air Slide 4 Green plants use carbon dioxide to make their food Slide 5…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Ecosystems 1.Energy Flow 2. Chemical cycles water, carbon, nitrogen 3. Human effects on cycles eutrophication, acid rain Slide 3 Copyright © 2003 Pearson…

Slide 1 Nitrogen in Soil and the Nitrogen Cycle Slide 2 What Is Nitrogen? Chemical Element, commonly a colorless, tasteless, odorless gas. 78 % by volume of the Earth’s…

Slide 1 Unit C 4-8 Basic Principles of Agricultural/Horticultural Science Slide 2 Problem Area 4 Identifying Basic Principles of Plant Science Slide 3 Lesson 8 Determining…

Slide 1 Effects of Shading from Bridges on Estuarine Wetlands S.W. Broome and M. D. SanClements N.C. State University C. B. Craft and S. D. Struck Indiana University Slide…

Slide 1 Richard Mundembe Slide 2 Focus of the presentation The talk will focus on methods of plant transformation that have been used on non-model crops. - Cowpea, cassava,…