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ShareHydroponics is the growing of plants without soil.
Researchers of plant metabolism have discovered that plants absorb nutrients as simple ions in water.
In natural conditions, soil acts as a nutrient reservoir but the soil itself is not essential to plant growth.
For more information about the topic Hydroponics, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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