Study is first to show how to mobilize native phosphorus in the soil using zinc oxide nanoparticles over the life cycle of the plant, from seed to harvest

“There is still more research needed to decide if growers in the area could make a good profit from avocados and sustain the crops from disease."

“In some parts of the tropics, for every ton of phosphorus harvested in food, you have to donate one ton to the soil.” 

The diet in many developing countries is lacking zinc, but researchers have just solved the riddle of how to get more zinc into crop seeds

ASU part of research that finds massive phosphorus buildup in landscape

Top scenario is adoption of agricultural best management practices

Microbiologists unravel relationship among plants, mycorrhizal fungi

Findings could help inform the design and engineering of new nanotechnologies to improve crop yields and biomass production

The flow of water in agriculture gives rise to many questions

To feed an increasing global population, world wheat production must increase by 2 percent each year