Phosphatase plant phosphorus nutrition

J. Wasaki, M. Ando, K. Ozawa, M. Omura, M. Osaki, H. Ito, H. Matsui, and T. Tadano, Properties of secretory acid phosphatase from lupin roots under phosphorus-deficient conditions, Plant Nutrition for Sustainable Food Production and Environment (T, Ando, K. Fujita, T. Mae, H. Matsumoto, S. Mori, and J. Sekiya, eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1997, p. 295. 

The liberation of phosphate from organic phosphorus for plant nutrition could simply originate from the large pool of the abundant and ubiquitous immobilized phosphatases on soil constituents Qoner et al., 2000 Fransson et al., 2003). 

Ascencio, J. (1997) Root-secreted acid phosphatase kinetics as a physiological marker for phosphorus deficiency, youma/ of Plant Nutrition 20, 9-26. 

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