The Ecophysiology of Plant-Phosphorus Interactions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: White, Philip J. (Editor), Hammond, John P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Plant Ecophysiology, 7
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant biochemistry.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant genetics.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. It is as phosphate that plants take up P from the soil solution. Since little phosphate is available to plants in most soils, plants have evolved a range of mechanisms to acquire and use P efficiently – including the development of symbi...

Table of Contents:

• Phosphorus in the global environment
• Carbon/nitrogen/phosphorus allometric relations across species
• Phosphorus and aquatic plants
• Phosphorus nutrition of terrestrial plants
• Root strategies for phosphorus acquisition
• Plants without arbuscular mycorrhizae
• Mycorrhizal symbioses
• The role of rhizosphere microorganisms in relation to P uptake by plants
• Soil and fertilizer phosphorus in relation to crop nutrition
• Diagnosing phosphorus deficiency in crop plants
• Potential and limitations to improving crops for enhanced phosphorus utilization
• Phosphorus and the future.