Opportunities for mobilizing recalcitrant phosphorus from agricultural soils: a review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Phosphorus (P) fertilizer is usually applied in excess of plant requirement and accumulates in soils due to its strong adsorption, rapid precipitation and immobilisation into unavailable forms including organic moieties. As soils are complex and diverse chemical, biochemical and biological systems, strategies to access recalcitrant soil P are often inefficient, case specific and inconsistently applicable in different soils. Finding a near-universal or at least widely applicable solution to the inefficiency in agricultural P use by plants is an important unsolved problem that has been under investigation for more than half a century.

Scope

In this paper we critically review the strategies proposed for the remobilization of recalcitrant soil phosphorus for crops and

SUBMITTER: Menezes-Blackburn D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6438637 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature