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, ...

Phosphorus is a necessary nutrient for plants to grow. But when it's applied to plants as part of a chemical fertilizer, phosphorus can react strongly with minerals in the soil, forming complexes with ...

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 ...

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 ...