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Minerals in the plants are not lost when the leaf falls .

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(I ) Reason : Minerals are remobilised from older dyinng leaves to younger leaves .
eg .elements like phosphorus , sulphour ,
(ii ) this amounts of materal material exchanges takes place between xylem and phloem . Hence minerals are not lost when the leaf falls .
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