Copper and Nickel, essential microelements in plant nutrition

Abstract

On Earth there are a hundred natural chemical elements, but living beings that inhabit used only twenty. Numerous metals make up this group, many of them essential for agencies to complete their life cycle. However, while some are essential for survival, excess or the presence of others can be toxic or even lethal. The plants have developed specific mechanisms absorb and accumulate nutrients, however, some metals and metalloids are absorbed and accumulate in the plant because they exhibit an electrochemical behavior similar to the required nutrients. Absorption of Copper and Nickel by plants is the first step of entering the food chain, metabolic character due to the ability to accumulate metals in their tissues. The test objective was to know the results of recent research to elucidate the function of copper and nickel in plant nutrition.