Journal
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 41, Issue 7, Pages 1483-1496Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pce.13191
Keywords
membrane lipid remodelling; phosphorus remobilization; purple acid phosphatase (PAP); RNase
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- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Japan [LCT-0006]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H03783, 15H04466] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Orthophosphate (H2PO4-, Pi) is an essential macronutrient integral to energy metabolism as well as a component of membrane lipids, nucleic acids, including ribosomal RNA, and therefore essential for protein synthesis. The Pi concentration in the solution of most soils worldwide is usually far too low for maximum growth of crops, including rice. This has prompted the massive use of inefficient, polluting, and nonrenewable phosphorus (P) fertilizers in agriculture. We urgentlyneed alternative and more sustainable approaches to decrease agriculture's dependence on Pi fertilizers. These include manipulating crops by (a) enhancing the ability of their roots to acquire limiting Pi from the soil (i.e. increased P-acquisition efficiency) and/or (b) increasing the total biomass/yield produced per molecule of Pi acquired from the soil (i.e. increased P-use efficiency). Improved P-use efficiency may be achieved by producing high-yielding plants with lower P concentrations or by improving the remobilization of acquired P within the plant so as to maximize growth and biomass allocation to developing organs. Membrane lipid remodelling coupled with hydrolysis of RNA and smaller P-esters in senescing organs fuels P remobilization in rice, the world's most important cereal crop.
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