If the soil is deficient in anyone nutrient, it will make the other nutrient metabolically inactive and the proper growth of the plant will be restricted. This can be explained by
Liebig’s law of minimum
Shelford’s law of tolerance
Both a and b
None of those
Liebig's Law of minimum/Law of limiting factor -
When a biological process is conditioned as to its rapidity by a number of separate factors, the rate of the process is limited by the pace of the slowest factor.
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Given by F.F Blackman (1905)