Crops often receive beneficial nutrients such as phosphorus (P) from manure and/or commercial fertilizer applications. However, the Delaware Nutrient Management Law limits the amount of P that can be ...

Northwestern researchers made progress on understanding how genes affect Alzheimer’s disease treatments and iron oxides’ role in the phosphorus cycle.

The discovery could help researchers and industry experts better understand the phosphorus cycle and optimize its use, especially in agricultural soils.

The impact of this is that a lack of phosphorus affects the growth cycle of species and can, for example, prevent trees from reacting to the increase in carbon dioxide associated with climate change.

Northwestern University researchers are actively overturning the conventional view of iron oxides as mere phosphorus "sinks." ...

Most phosphorus in the environment is in an organic form that plants cannot directly use, and traditional understanding suggested only enzymes could convert it into the bioavailable inorganic form.