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Yan Sun1, Jinting Zhang1, Weiwei Li1

  • 1College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, State Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management (SKL-NUM), Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.

Annals of Botany
|September 18, 2024
PubMed
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Keywords:
Phosphorus-rich patchesheterogeneous phosphate supplylocal P signalsnutrient acquisitionroot proliferationsucrose metabolism

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