Phosphorus deficiency. 1  Symptoms: Slow growth and dull yellow foliage. 2  Cause: Phosphorus is needed for healthy roots and shoot growth. 3  Soil shortages of phosphorus are rare, but may occur in areas with high rainfall and heavy clay soil. 4  Remedy: Apply fertilisers such as superphosphate or bone meal.
Smooth muscle is an involuntary non-striated muscle. It is divided into two subgroups; the single-unit (unitary) and multiunit smooth muscle. Within single-unit cells, the whole bundle or sheet contracts as a syncytium (i.e. a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells).mooth muscle is found within the walls of blood vessels (such smooth muscle specifically being termed vascular smooth muscle) such as in the tunica media layer of large (aorta) and small arteries, arterioles and veins.
Smooth muscles are of two major types known as single unit, aka unitary, smooth muscles and multi-unit smooth muscles. The single unit smooth muscles contract and relax together, as the nerve impulse excites only one muscle cell, and that is passed on to other cells through gap junctions. Smooth muscles are found in inner organs while cardiac muscles are found only in the heart. â¢ Cardiac muscles are striated, but smooth muscles are non-striated. â¢ Each cardiac muscle cell has one or more nuclei, but the smooth muscle cells are single nucleated.