{"id":593431,"date":"2019-03-18T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7a18ac2adeafeba4a247093f2016dafd"},"modified":"2019-03-18T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:43:44","slug":"excessive-phosphate-fertilizer-use-can-reduce-microbial-functions-critical-to-crop-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=593431","title":{"rendered":"Excessive phosphate fertilizer use can reduce microbial functions critical to crop health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phosphorus is crucial for plant growth\u2014with it, plants can acquire, transfer, and store the energy that helps them flourish in full health. Without it, plants flounder: they&#8217;re stunted, discolored, and produce low yields. For this reason, farmers and gardeners often apply phosphate fertilizers (P-fertilizer) to increase the amount of phosphorous in their soil. However, a recent study finds that excessive P-fertilizer may actually hurt the plants it is trying to help by altering the composition and function of the microbes in the soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phosphorus is crucial for plant growth&mdash;with it, plants can acquire, transfer, and store the energy that helps them flourish in full health. Without it, plants flounder: they&#8217;re stunted, discolored, and produce low yields. For this reason, farmers and gardeners often apply phosphate fertilizers (P-fertilizer) to increase the amount of phosphorous in their soil. However, a recent study finds that excessive P-fertilizer may actually hurt the plants it is trying to help by altering the composition and function of the microbes in the soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593432,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593431\/revisions\/593432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}