ArticleNature communications2025
A dynamic optimization of soil phosphorus status approach could reduce phosphorus fertilizer use by half in China.
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- Effects of irrigation and fertilization management on kiwifruit yield, water use efficiency and quality in China: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Pooled it
- Global-scale patterns of bioavailable soil phosphorus driven by agricultural fertilization.iScience · 2026Article
- From Deficiency to Enrichment: Diverging Soil Phosphorus Trajectories Across China's Croplands (1980-2018).Global change biology · 2026Article
- Integrated mineralogical, metabolomic, and gene expression analysis of the phosphate-solubilizing mechanism of Pseudomonas sp. PSB-13.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Article
- An improved global database and model of plant available soil phosphorus.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Phosphorus application, nutrient absorption, and endophytic root bacterial communities in maize grown in phosphorus-deficient rocky arid soils, China.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Knocking out OsPht1;9-1;10 genes decreases arsenic accumulation in rice (Oryza sativa) grains.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Nanotechnology strategies for enhancing productivity, sulphur use efficiency and soil fertility in groundnut-mustard cropping systems.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Amino acid enhanced phosphorus fertilizers enhance wheat yield and efficiency by optimizing soil phosphorus pools in wheat fields for soil phosphorus risk management.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Experimental study on DEM parameters calibration for organic fertilizer by the particle swarm optimization - backpropagation neural networks.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Optimizing irrigation and fertilization management enhances alfalfa seed yield components through improved soil nutrient availability and leaf photosynthetic efficiency.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Sustainable phosphorus (P) management is essential for ensuring crop production while avoiding environmental damage and the depletion of phosphate rock reserves. Despite local demonstration scale successes, the widespread mobilization of smallholder farmers to adopt sustainable management practices remains a challenge, primarily due to the associated high costs and complicated sampling. Here, we propose a dynamic optimization of soil P status (DOP) approach aimed at managing long-term soil P status within the range of agronomic and environmental soil P thresholds, which facilitates the precise determination of optimal P application rates without the need for frequent soil testing. We evaluate the DOP approach in 35,575 on-farm trials, and the results show that it is agronomically acceptable. Our evaluation extends to estimating future soil P status and P fertilizer inputs across all counties in China for three cereal crops (wheat, rice, and maize). The results indicate that, compared to current practices, the DOP approach can achieve a 47.4% reduction in P fertilizer use without any yield penalty. The DOP approach could become an effective tool for global P management to safeguard food security and enhance environmental sustainability.
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