%0 Journal Article
%A Singh, Dipali
%A Nedbal, Ladislav
%A Ebenhöh, Oliver
%T Modelling phosphorus uptake in microalgae
%J Biochemical Society transactions
%V 46
%N 2
%@ 1470-8752
%C London
%I Portland Press
%M FZJ-2018-02491
%P 483 - 490
%D 2018
%X Phosphorus (P) is an essential non-renewable nutrient that frequently limits plant growth. It is the foundation of modern agriculture and, to a large extent, demand for P is met from phosphate rock deposits which are limited and becoming increasingly scarce. Adding an extra stroke to this already desolate picture is the fact that a high percentage of P, through agricultural runoff and waste, makes its way into rivers and oceans leading to eutrophication and collapse of ecosystems. Therefore, there is a critical need to practise P recovery from waste and establish a circular economy applicable to P resources. The potential of microalgae to uptake large quantities of P and use of this P enriched algal biomass as biofertiliser has been regarded as a promising way to redirect P from wastewater to the field. This also makes the study of molecular mechanisms underlying P uptake and storage in microalgae of great interest. In the present paper, we review phosphate models, which express the growth rate as a function of intra- and extracellular phosphorus content for better understanding of phosphate uptake and dynamics of phosphate pools
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:29666218
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000430260700024
%R 10.1042/BST20170262
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/845188