Benefits of Hydroponics & Its Impact on Agriculture

  Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture that involves growing plants, usually crops or medicinal plants, without soil, by using water-based mineral nutrient solutions in aqueous solvents. Terrestrial or aquatic plants may grow with their roots exposed to the nutritious liquid or in addition, the roots may be mechanically supported by an inert medium such as perlite, gravel, or other substrates. Despite inert media, roots can cause changes in the rhizosphere pH and root exudates can affect rhizosphere biology and the physiological balance of the nutrient solution by secondary metabolites. Transgenic plants grown hydroponically allow the release of pharmaceutical proteins as part of the root exudate into the hydroponic medium.  In case you don’t already know, hydroponics is a growing system that consists of producing vegetables without the roots touching the soil, and growing them in water with the appropriate treatments so that they get all the nutr...