PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL MECHANISM BEHIND THE RELATION BETWEEN NITROGEN-FORM AND PHOSPHORUS USE EFFICIENCY

• Grant number: 15/12399-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 07, 2015
• End date: August 06, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Crop Science
• Principal Investigator: Ciro Antonio Rosolem
• Grantee: Elialdo Alves de Souza
• Supervisor: Philip John White
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: James Hutton Institute, Scotland
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/18870-1 - LOCALIZED APPLICATION OF AMMONIA FERTILIZER AS STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE USE OF PHOSPHORUS IN CORN., BP.DR

Abstract

Microbiota assimilation, high interaction with cations and colloids in soil and low rates of diffusion decrease phosphorus (P) availability to plants. Nitrogen-forms (N) can affect differently P uptake, increasing the release of protons, H+/H2PO4 symporters operation and plasma membrane H+ ATPase and improving P use efficiency. The aims of this study are to investigate if and how N-forms change the expression of phosphate transporters, root architecture, proton-Pi co-transporters operation and the P use efficiency under deficiency and availability of phosphate. Corn plants will be grown in pouches on filter paper and supplied with nutrient solutions varying in their N-source (ammonium or nitrate), P concentration (0, 50, 100, 250 and 1000 ¼M), and pH (4 and 6), in a completely randomized design (2x5x2) and four replications. Root system size and architecture of individual plants will be monitored over three week. At the end of the growth period, plants will be cut and their biomass and P accumulation will be analyzed. Plant mineral composition will be determined by ICP-MS. The activity PM H+-ATPase will be determined colorimetrically. RNA will be extracted from roots and the expression of phosphate transporters will be quantified using rtPCR techniques.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE SOUZA, ELIALDO ALVES; FERREIRA-ELOY, NATALIA RODRIGUES; GRASSMANN, CAMILA DA SILVA; ROSOLEM, CIRO ANTONIO; WHITE, PHILIP J.. Ammonium Improves Corn Phosphorus Acquisition Through Changes in the Rhizosphere Processes and Root Morphology. Pedosphere, v. 29, n. 4, p. 534-539, AUG 2019. (15/12399-0, 13/18870-1)