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Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars f ...
, nutrient resorption is a process in which nutrients are withdrawn from senescing plant tissues. It acts as a nutrient conservation mechanism.
It is influenced by several environmental and physiological processes.
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Nutrient resorption or accumulation of desert plants with contrasting sodium regulation strategies
Plant nutrition
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