The importance of calcium

The importance of calcium:

• Calcium is an important element in maintaining soil pH.
• It forms good soil structure, allowing soils to breath
• It is critical in promoting healthy soil microbial life.
• Calcium is central to the nervous system in all living creatures, acting as the pathway and stimulator for brain impulses and contracting muscles.

Role of Calcium in plant Nutrition:

• Cell division and elongation
• The catalyst for Amino Acids, which are the building blocks for protein.
• Maintains healthy cell membranes
• Increases plant resistance to pathogen attack.
• Allows the correct formation of proteins within the plant
• Stimulates the uptake of most other elements, other than potassium
• Proper working and permeability of cell membranes