Phosphorus (P), as an essential element for plants, was easily fixed by minerals in soils. The P use efficiency in the first growing season of crop systems is less than 25% across the world. It enhances the depletion of global P rock reserves. At the same time, P fertilizer application is imbalanced in intensive cropping systems. Some systems are suffering excessive P beyond their demand, and the others, which still need to build-up soil P fertility, cannot access necessary P fertilizer. The former leads to an increased potential of environmental risk, and the latter threatens food security in the world.
Developing a whole chain management strategy of efficient P utilization is to integrate crop genotype selection, maximize rhizosphere management for biological mining of sparingly soluble phosphates, improve P uptake efficiency from root and arbuscular mycorrhiza pathways, develop new P fertilizer and implement P recycling in soil-cropping systems. Better management of P fertilizer in intensive cropping systems should compromise agronomic, ecological and environmental effects in future agriculture.
In this Research Topic, we welcome the submissions of original research articles, reviews or systematic reviews, policy and practice reviews, perspectives, opinions, methods, and data reports. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
• Strategies to improve P use efficiency by P-mobilizing species selection and rhizosphere management;
• The interaction among soil-plant-microorganisms determining P use of crops;
• Quantifying P losses in field, regional, national and world levels by modeling or investigating approaches, and;
• Sustainable management of P in intensive cropping systems through novel efficient P fertilizer and P recycling.
Phosphorus (P), as an essential element for plants, was easily fixed by minerals in soils. The P use efficiency in the first growing season of crop systems is less than 25% across the world. It enhances the depletion of global P rock reserves. At the same time, P fertilizer application is imbalanced in intensive cropping systems. Some systems are suffering excessive P beyond their demand, and the others, which still need to build-up soil P fertility, cannot access necessary P fertilizer. The former leads to an increased potential of environmental risk, and the latter threatens food security in the world.
Developing a whole chain management strategy of efficient P utilization is to integrate crop genotype selection, maximize rhizosphere management for biological mining of sparingly soluble phosphates, improve P uptake efficiency from root and arbuscular mycorrhiza pathways, develop new P fertilizer and implement P recycling in soil-cropping systems. Better management of P fertilizer in intensive cropping systems should compromise agronomic, ecological and environmental effects in future agriculture.
In this Research Topic, we welcome the submissions of original research articles, reviews or systematic reviews, policy and practice reviews, perspectives, opinions, methods, and data reports. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
• Strategies to improve P use efficiency by P-mobilizing species selection and rhizosphere management;
• The interaction among soil-plant-microorganisms determining P use of crops;
• Quantifying P losses in field, regional, national and world levels by modeling or investigating approaches, and;
• Sustainable management of P in intensive cropping systems through novel efficient P fertilizer and P recycling.
