Molybdenum

Molybdenum is the essential element required in less quantity by the plant, but it is of extreme importance due to the role it plays in plant metabolism, especially in the biological processes of nitrogen fixing in legumes. This element becomes part of some enzymatic systems that catalyze important nitrogen absorption reactions, such as nitrogenase and nitrate reductase, in which it acts as an electron carrier. Molybdenum is absorbed as a molybdate ion.

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