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Understanding the Dynamics of Phosphorus Starvation and Plant Growth

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Phosphorus is one of the essential macronutrients required in relatively large quantities by the plants for normal growth and development and to complete their life cycle. It is an important constituent of biomolecules like nucleic acids, phospholipids, enzymes and adenosine triphosphate. Phosphate signaling allows higher plants to respond and adapt to the phosphate-deficient conditions efficiently. Phosphorus deficiency in the soil produces responses and adaptive changes in the plants like changes in root morphology and architecture, improved uptake and utilization of P, metabolic changes, exudation of organic acids, and numerous enzymes for the solubilization of the inorganic and organic reserves of P in the rhizosphere (phosphate mobilization). Therefore, the understanding of the proper mechanisms of the adaptation of plants to low P availability will help in the selection and breeding to improve productivity under P-limited environments. The present review gives an overview of the plant responses to P-limited environments and the developments made so far in this area of study.

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  1. Centre for Biodiversity Studies, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, 185234, India

    Tariq Ahmad Dar & Tanvir ul Hassan Dar

  2. Botany Section, Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

    Moin Uddin

  3. Department of Botany, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, 282005, India

    Akbar Ali

  4. Plant Physiology Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

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Dar, T.A., Uddin, M., Ali, A., Khan, M.M.A., ul Hassan Dar, T. (2017). Understanding the Dynamics of Phosphorus Starvation and Plant Growth. In: Naeem, M., Ansari, A., Gill, S. (eds) Essential Plant Nutrients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58841-4_7

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