Botanists show for the first time that reduced phosphorus investment in lipids in plants improves phosphorus use efficiency in rice without reducing photosynthesis.
Tag - phosphorus
Alex Assiry
Seminal roots help maize grab nutrients
When humans selected for bigger seeds in maize, they may have also unintentionally improved its root system.
Fi Gennu
Foliar nutrient allocation patterns in Banksia attenuata and B. sessilis
Banksia attenuata and Banksia sessilis are in the same genus, but their life strategies reflect how they react to poor nutrition.
Alun Salt
Root hairs offer benefit during drought without decreasing yield in good years
This makes them an ideal target for breeders looking to up resilience without bringing down productivity.
Erin Zimmerman
Fields of yellow: getting the nutrient balance right in oilseed rape
How Brassica napus takes up phosphorus can also change how it takes up other nutrients.
Liam Elliott
The Oaks of the North Are Unexpectedly Well-Defended
Normally you would expect plant defences to increase, the closer you get to the equator. This is where insect life is more active, and so more defence against herbivores are needed. But is this always the case? Xoaquín...
Regulatory effect of phosphorus and nitrogen on nodulation and plant performance of shrubby legumes
The four species showed similar patterns in their absorption and use of phosphorus and nitrogen.
William Salter
Bacillus pumilus increases boron uptake and inhibits rapeseed growth under boron supply irrespective of phosphorus fertilization
Boron and phosphorus are soil nutrients essential for plant growth, metabolism and development. Boron deficiency is a major factor limiting the growth of at least 132 crops in over 80 countries. Symptoms of boron...
In situ analyses of inorganic nutrient distribution in sweetcorn and maize kernels
Understanding the spatial distribution of inorganic nutrients within edible parts of plant products helps biofortification efforts to identify and focus on specific uptake pathways and storage mechanisms. Cheah et al...
Phene interactions determine nutrient capture in common bean
Rangarajan et al. employ the functional–structural model SimRoot to explore how interactions among architectural phenes in common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabaceae) determine the acquisition of phosphate and nitrate...
Abscisic acid affects rice cell wall phosphate remobilization and P transporation
Abscisic acid (ABA) is a well-studied phytohormone known to be involved in sub-sets of stress responses in plants, such as iron (Fe) deficiency and phosphorus (P) deficiency in Arabidopsis. However, whether ABA is...
botanyone
How fungi oxygenated the Earth
Now that’s an eye-catching headline, isn’t it? The thought of mushrooms and toadstools – that famously don’t produce oxygen, unlike green plants with their oxygenic photosynthesis – adding oxygen to the planet’s...
Nigel Chaffey
Reducing P uptake by plants
Some things are hard to digest, but is an excess of phosphorus really one of them?
Humans are good for forests
You are all forgiven for doing a ‘double-take’ upon reading that headline. Usually it’s all bad news when humans and forests are concerned, so a statement to the contrary is noteworthy. The item concerns ancient humans...
