Why are nitrogen and phosphorus vital in photosynthesising plants
Phosphorus is a vital building block and is used in the compound ATP, it is also a vital component within nucleotide and protein synthesis with the sugar phosphate backbone found in DNA and RNA being composed of phosphate. As well as being vital in the phospholipid bilayer. Nitrogen is essential for plant growth including protein synthesis due to amino acid structure.
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