With the rapid increase in industrialization and human population since the turn of the industrial revolution, civilization finds itself in increasingly dire need of the Earth’s resources to sustain ...

While phosphorus is an essential element for plant metabolism and growth, its future supply under elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide is uncertain. A shortage of this important nutrient ...

Experiments published in Food and Energy Security by scientists at Queen Mary University of London and Royal Botanic Gardens suggest that we are globally wasting huge amounts of phosphorus. By ...

Growth of the Amazon rainforest in our increasingly carbon-rich atmosphere could be limited by a lack of phosphorus in the soil, new research shows. Higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) cause ...

Agnes Millimouno, a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is sampling designer biochar pellets from a field experiment for further analysis. URBANA, Ill. – Tile drainage ...

Phosphorus availability in soils is an important parameter influencing primary production in terrestrial ecosystems. Phosphorus limitation exists in many soils since a high proportion of soil ...

This means that phosphorus is left in the water instead of being washed away through rivers and streams. As a result, very high concentrations of phosphorus can build up in these soda lakes. As early ...

Plants and microbes are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Now, researchers found that iron oxide in soil performs the same transformation ...

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, ...