What factors need to be considered to improve plant food production?

Factors

Improve

Plant food production

Processes that effect the growth

To make something better or of high quality.

Circumstances that effect situations or influences an event that contributes to the final result.

Photosynthesis - plants producing their "food" through their leaves, roots, or through other parts of their structure.

Plants and how their growth is affected

Cactus

Bamboo

Palm trees

Fern

Size of initial planting, the age of the stand/grove, soil nutrition, drainage of liquids, and the environment. Thrive in moist, well drained soil.

Filtered sunlight helps growth succeed, light shade, and ferns require equal moisture to sunlight to avoid drying out. They like rich, organic soil such as compost from the garden.

Temperature

Light (intensity, duration, quality)

Water - in particular to the amount

Nutrition (availability of nutrients)

Humidity

Salinity

They prefer soil that has sand or rocks in it, with full exposure to sun and fast draining soil. Cactus also struggle to grow in climates with high humidity and insufficient airflow.

Palm trees struggle to grow in compact, heavy soil with little air pockets, and can stunt the growth of roots. Need to be watered a moderate amount of water, as overhydration can lead to root rot. Particular palm trees thrive when planted with a controlled- release fertiliser.

When humidity is normal, stomates open, letting in carbon dioxide to help with photosynthesis; which correlates to plant growth.

Carries nutrients throughout the plant, essential for plants to gain energy from the sun.

Photosynthesis, transpiration, and respiration all increase as the temperature goes up.

Without enough light, carbohydrates cannot be manufactured and the reserved energy is wasted.

Nutrients (nitrogen) are needed for plant and stem growth, where amino acids are used to build proteins.

The presence of this can limit the water uptake from the soil, also leading to slower germination, vegetative growth, and reproductive development.