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Agricultural Reviews, volume 27 issue 4 (december 2006) : 235 - 246

ROLE OF CALCIUM IN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS - A REVIEW

Ritu Jha
1Institute of Agricultural Sciences Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221 005, India
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Cite article:- Jha Ritu (2024). ROLE OF CALCIUM IN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS - A REVIEW. Agricultural Reviews. 27(4): 235 - 246. doi: .
The physiology of plants is undoubtedly affected by a number of elements directly or indirectly. The importance of calciun as an essential macronutrient in the functioning of plants is inevitable. It is the critical role of calcium in influencing the working of the plant system that obviously attracted the attention of a nunber of research workers around the globe.
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