Mineral Nutrition Plant Mineral Nutrition Results/ Discussion: Generally, all the nutrient treatments had a positive effect on the height of the plants at some point in the experiment (Figure 3). All the treated plants except those with the minus magnesium treatment experienced some decline in the shoot height. The point in time in which the plants height increased was uniform; however, the point in time in which the height decreased was not uniform. For the complete, minus magnesium, and minus potassium treatments the shoot height started to increase on day two of watering. For treatments minus phosphorous and minus nitrogen the increase in height started on day one of watering. The mineral treatment which had the largest shoot to root ratio in biomass was complete with a 4.4 meaning that for every 1g of root mass there would be 4.4g of shoot mass(Figure 2). The treatment with the smallest shoot to root biomass ratio on the other hand was minus nitrogen with a 2.5, so for every 1g of roots there would be 2.5g of shoot. Potassium had a ratio of 1:3.5, magnesium had a ratio of 1:3.4 and phosphorous had a ratio of 1:3.25 (root: shoot). I found an article which discusses the root and shoot changes in response to nitrogen starvation (minus nitrogen) of the Arabidopsis plant. It was noted that in conditions where nitrogen is lacking the roots grew a lot and in conditions where nitrogen was readily available there was a lot of growth in the leaves, or shoots. This information provides evidence that contradicts our findings. In the minus nitrogen mineral treatment the plants, on average, had the greatest amount of shoot growth (Figure 3). Based on the data that I collected, there is evidence to support that; overall, the nutrient treatments had a much greater effect on the shoots as compared to the roots in terms of biomass. This could be because there might have been greater transport of the nutrients to the shoots in the plants. Also, since there were no real...