Stoichiometry of Terrestrial Plants and Its Implications According to SNA

Autocatalysis is a necessary but in various ways chemically precarious precondition for life which additionally poses some critical constraints of matter use in life and reproduction, and 

There is a direct relationship between the stability of typical (containing the ligand sites also involved 

2 Autocatalytic Processes and the Role of Essential Elements in Plant Growth 

Non-wood plants will sometimes grow extremely large at certain sites of high humidity and plentiful trace element availability from volcano soils (Ruwenzori Mountains, Azores Islands), suggesting an influence of trace metals which are more abundant there on gene expression and thus growth regulation. 

Obviously, any loss/export of essential elements is going to hinder autocatalytic processes, while some part of the components taken from soil by roots are just 

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