{"id":1814,"date":"2021-02-10T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2021-02-10T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:37:59","slug":"phosphorus-fertilization-reduces-zinc-concentration-of-cereals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2021\/02\/10\/phosphorus-fertilization-reduces-zinc-concentration-of-cereals\/","title":{"rendered":"Phosphorus fertilization reduces zinc concentration of cereals"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1815\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1815 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/zhang-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/zhang-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/zhang-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/zhang-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/02\/zhang.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Zhang et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-020-00661-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zhang et al.<\/a> highlighted recently that phosphorus fertilizer application reduces grain Zinc (Zn) concentration by 16.6% for wheat and 20.2% for maize. However, Zn content in grain of wheat and rice increases with increasing P fertilization. They ascribe this effect to a mere \u2018dilution effect\u2019 (i.e., same abundance in greater biomass) because grain biomass increases in response to P applications while root Zn uptake efficiency declines. They reckoned that attempts for increasing grain Zn concentration by biofortification should consider these effects carefully.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-020-00661-0'   ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang et al. highlighted recently that phosphorus fertilizer application reduces grain Zinc (Zn) concentration by 16.6% for wheat and 20.2% for maize. However, Zn content in grain of wheat and rice increases with increasing P fertilization. They ascribe this effect to a mere \u2018dilution effect\u2019 (i.e., same abundance in greater biomass) because grain biomass increases &#8230; <a title=\"Phosphorus fertilization reduces zinc concentration of cereals\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2021\/02\/10\/phosphorus-fertilization-reduces-zinc-concentration-of-cereals\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Phosphorus fertilization reduces zinc concentration of cereals\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}