The frustration with utilization: Why have improvements in internal phosphorus utilization efficiency in crops remained so elusive?

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Rose, Terry J ^a   Rose, Michael T ^a   Pariasca Tanaka, Juan ^a   Heuer, Sigrid ^b   Wissuwa, Matthias ^a  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Internal use efficiency; Phosphorus acquisition efficiency; Phosphorus concentration; Root growth; Screening method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862537235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00073     Document Type: Article

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