A flowering plant is planted in an earthen pot and irrigated. Urea is added to make theplant grow faster, but after some time the plant dies. Give its possible reasons.

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The plant has died due to exosmosis, i.e. the plant cell loose water as the medium gets hypertonic when urea is added.

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