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Short Answer Question:
Enlist the role and deficiency symptoms of Potassium.
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Solution
Potassium:
a. Role: Helps in determining anion- cation balance in cells involved in protein synthesis, involved in the formation of the cell membrane and in opening and closing of stomata; increases hardness; activates enzymes, and helps in the maintenance of turgidity of cells.
b. Deficiency symptom: Yellow edges to leaves, premature death.
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