Phosphorus is an essential soil nutrient plants need to thrive. Phosphorus is a vital mineral for healthy plant growth. Unlike carbon dioxide or oxygen, which plants receive from the air, plants ...

Growing plants on the moon could be made easier by adding bacteria to the soil to produce phosphorus, an essential element for plant growth that isn’t readily available in lunar soil. Lunar regolith, ...

One of the most disheartening things a gardener can witness is a plant struggling to grow well, especially after putting in a lot of effort to provide the optimal growing conditions. Nutrients often ...

In the complex network of ecosystems, plant growth is closely linked to nutrient acquisition, with phosphorus playing a critical role. Although phosphorus is abundant in soil, most of it exists in ...

Northwestern University researchers are actively overturning the conventional view of iron oxides as mere phosphorus “sinks.” A critical nutrient for life, most phosphorus in the soil is organic — ...

Phosphorus, a key ingredient in fertilizers, is running out. The world's food systems depend on phosphorus mined from limited reserves, yet much of what is applied to fields washes away, leaving soils ...

Most phosphorus in the environment is in an organic form that plants cannot directly use, and traditional understanding suggested only enzymes could convert it into the bioavailable inorganic form.

Plants and microbes are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Now, researchers report iron oxides can drive the same conversion at comparable ...