PALE IN COMPARISON Interveinal Chlorosis
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PALE IN COMPARISON Interveinal Chlorosis
BY FRANK RAUSCHER
Interveinal chlorosis is easy to spot , but the remedy can be harder to identify . As Frank Rauscher explains , the roots are a good place to start .
To understand interveinal chlorosis in a plant , it is useful to review what the veins of a leaf look like and what they do . The veins of most leaves are generally obvious as they look much like our own veins . They provide physical support for the leaf as well as transport water and nutrients through the leaf . Leaf veins do look much different when comparing monocots and dicots , however . With a dicot , there are larger leaf veins feeding smaller ones across the face of the leaf . In a monocot , the veins run parallel and may not seem so obvious . Palm trees are monocots ( monocotyledon ) while tomatoes are dicots ( dicotyledon ), and while we won ’ t get into the differences between these here , the appearance of the leaf veins is very different . This discussion will be referring to dicot plants . Click on the QR code at the end of this article for additional information relating to monocots and referenced information .
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