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.
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April 17 2018
Modelling phosphorus uptake in microalgae
Dipali Singh;
Dipali Singh
1Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology, Heinrich Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Ladislav Nedbal;
Ladislav Nedbal
2Institute of Bio- and Geosciences/Plant Sciences (IBG-2) and Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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Oliver Ebenhöh
1Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology, Heinrich Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
3Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Heinrich Heine University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Correspondence: Oliver Ebenhöh (oliver.ebenhoeh@hhu.de)
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Received:
November 12 2017
Revision Received:
February 01 2018
Accepted:
February 16 2018
Online ISSN: 1470-8752
Print ISSN: 0300-5127
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society
2018
Biochem Soc Trans (2018) 46 (2): 483–490.
Article history
Received:
November 12 2017
Revision Received:
February 01 2018
Accepted:
February 16 2018
Citation
Dipali Singh, Ladislav Nedbal, Oliver Ebenhöh; Modelling phosphorus uptake in microalgae. Biochem Soc Trans 17 April 2018; 46 (2): 483–490. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20170262
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