The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 5, 81-88,
Copyright © 1922 by The Rockefeller University Press
ABSORPTION OF NUTRIENTS AND PLANT GROWTH IN RELATION TO HYDROGEN ION CONCENTRATION
Olof Arrhenius 1
1 From the Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge.
The absorption of nutrients depends to a large extent on the reaction of the substrate. At maximal growth the intake of salt is at minimum. Different ions are very differently affected. The intake of water is independent of the absorption of salts.
Submitted on June 30, 1922