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Research Subjects (RS) of AMAIZE-P

Figure: The phosphate cycle in a future scenario with maximized phosphate use efficiency and minimized losses.

Subject Area 1 - Genetic potential

RS 1.1 - Genetic variation, genetic architecture and genomic prediction of P-use-efficiency traits in European and Chinese maize
RS 1.2 - Importance of root architecture and rhizosphere-related processes for improving phosphate use efficiency
RS 1.3 - Regulatory modules of carbon resource allocation under different phosphate availabilities

Subject Area 2 - P management at field and farm level

RS 2.1 - Genotype to phenotype modelling of phosphate acquisition and related biomass and yield traits of maize
RS 2.2 - Increasing soil phosphate availability and phosphate fertilizer efficiency
RS 2.3 - Detecting phosphate status in soil and in maize canopies by non-invasive methods
RS 2.4 - Heavy metals from phosphate fertilizers in maize based food-feed-energy systems

Subject Area 3 - P nutrition and recovery

RS 3.1 - Impact of reduced-phosphate-availability on essential micronutrients in maize for human consumption
RS 3.2 - Inositol phosphates in the digestive tract and phosphate utilisation of farm animals fed maize
RS 3.3 - Deployment of phosphate resources for nutrient recycling via anaerobic digestion systems
RS 3.4 - Hydrothermal conversion of biomass to carbon materials with phosphate recovery

Subject Area 4 - Economic evaluation and synthesis

RS 4.1 - Economic analyses at plot, farm enterprise, regional and sectoral levels
RS 4.2 - Synthesis and field experiments
RS 4.3 - Economic assessment of future phosphorus availability: Impacts on agricultural and food markets at farm, national and global levels