Boosting plant phosphate uptake

Phosphate Uptake by Phosphate-Starved Euglena

Phosphate participates in an essential way in a number of cell functions, including glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation, and nucleic acid synthesis. In almost all the cell types studied, the entry of phosphate seems to be controlled at the cell surface (1). In yeast, in which phosphate can be transported against a concentration gradient, the accumulation of phosphate depends on glycolysis and...

High Phosphate Uptake

Human red blood cells reach an equilibrium of phosphate distribution at 37 ° much faster with o . I I M or intermediate levels than with o.o2 M and lower phosphate levels. Other divalent anions added to 0.o2 M phosphate solutions have an action similar to that of the extra phosphate. A past observation that phosphate escapes from red cells more slowly than it enters them appears to have arisen ...

Phosphate uptake by yeast cells

Effect of low-phosphate pretreatment of plant species with different relative growth rates on subsequent phosphate uptake.

Boosting plant defence by beneficial soil microorganisms

Plants in their environment face potential deleterious organisms such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, etc. Many of them are able to cause plant diseases, responsible of important losses in crop production worldwide. But often the outcome of these interactions is not disease, since plants have developed multiple mechanisms to protect themselves against pathogens attack. Moreover, benefic...