Current Science

Rajamanickam Elanchezhian ¹, Vengavasi Krishnapriya ², Renu Pandey ², Annangi Subba Rao ¹, Yash Pal Abrol ³

Affiliations
1 Indian Institute of Soil Science, Nabibagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal 462 038, IN
2 Division of Plant Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, IN
3 ING-SCON, F-4, A Block, NASC Complex, DPS Marg, New Delhi 110 012, IN

Abstract

Intensive use of phosphorus (P) in agriculture has raised concerns about its sustainability due to potential resource scarcity and its non-judicious use which has led to serious environmental pollution. Plants possess a number of adaptive mechanisms to cope with P stress leading to changes at morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular levels. A comprehensive understanding of these adaptive responses is required to improve P uptake efficiency, partitioning and utilization, together with other agronomic approaches, which would result in meeting the sustainability challenge of P delivery to crops. The present article briefly covers various plant responses to P stress and molecular strategies that could be used to develop plants efficient in P acquisition.

Keywords

Acid Phosphatase, Phosphorus Starvation Induced Genes, Phosphorus Uptake Efficiency, Root Morphology, Pi Transporter.

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