TY  - JOUR
AU  - Singh, Dipali
AU  - Nedbal, Ladislav
AU  - Ebenhöh, Oliver
TI  - Modelling phosphorus uptake in microalgae
JO  - Biochemical Society transactions
VL  - 46
IS  - 2
SN  - 1470-8752
CY  - London
PB  - Portland Press
M1  - FZJ-2018-02491
SP  - 483 - 490
PY  - 2018
AB  - 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
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:29666218
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000430260700024
DO  - DOI:10.1042/BST20170262
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/845188
ER  -