Abstract
Purpose
Struvite is a wastewater-derived P mineral that offers a means to redirect wastestream P flows to agroecosystems. The low water solubility of struvite (< 3%) has been reported to limit early-season crop P uptake. Arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) could enhance dissolution of struvite and thereby increase crop utilization of struvite-P. We tested the hypothesis that AM would increase struvite dissolution and thereby enhance plant P uptake and biomass in a P-deficient soil.
Methods
We employed a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) genotype model with a wild-type mycorrhizal tomato (MYC) and a reduced mycorrhizal mutant (rmc). Monoammonium phosphate (MAP) was used as a highly water soluble P fertilizer for comparison with struvite.
Results
Struvite granules underwent 4-fold less dissolution (% mass remaining) than MAP granules, and apparent struvite dissolution was similar under MYC and rmc. However, scanning electron microscopy revealed qualitative differences in surface morphology of residual struvite between MYC and rmc. Under struvite fertilization, biomass of MYC was 22% greater than rmc, and P and N shoot uptake (mg plant−1) were 32% and 34% greater than rmc. Shoot biomass was 24% greater for MYC fertilized with struvite than with MAP, and shoot P and N uptake were 26% and 34% greater, respectively.
Conclusion
Increased N and P uptake by AM-associated tomato plants fertilized with struvite suggests AM as a strategy to surmount solubility constraints to the use of struvite as a fertilizer.
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Financial support was in part provide by the National Science Foundation under grant #NSF REU 1559908/1559929, as part of the Phenotypic Plasticity Research Experience for Community College Students, through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Genomic Biology and Parkland College. Additional support was provided by Illinois Nutrient Research and Education Council (NREC) award #2018–4–360731-385 (A.J.M.).
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Di Tomassi, I., Chatterjee, N., Barrios-Masias, F.H. et al. Arbuscular mycorrhizae increase biomass and nutrient uptake of tomato fertilized with struvite compared to monoammonium phosphate. Plant Soil 464, 321–333 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-04957-2
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Keywords
- Solanum lycopersicum L
- Magnesium ammonium phosphate
- Monoammonium phosphate
- Mycorrhizal fungi
- Phosphorus