Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi - 221 005, India.
The physiology of plants is undoubtedly affected by a number of elements directly or indirectly. The importance of calciun as an essential macronutrient in the functioning of plants is inevitable. It is the critical role of calcium in influencing the working of the plant system that obviously attracted the attention of a nunber of research workers around the globe.