TY - JOUR
AU - Fallah Nosratabad, Ali Reza
AB - INTRODUCTIONVarious carp species make a big share of aquaculture production in the World and Iran. Carp species are mainly reared in the earthen fishponds (FAO, 2018), and their diet mostly consists of natural food. Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient for phytoplankton that plays a pivotal role in biological productivity (Hu et al., 2010), especially for filter‐feeding species. Organic and chemical fertilizers are commonly used in fish farms to increase P in the water. However, P bioavailability is reduced mainly due to its tendency to bind with bivalent cations, such as calcium, iron and aluminium, forming insoluble complexes in sediment (Chen & Liu, 2019). A large amount of P (from food loss, organic fertilizer and fish faeces, etc.) is also deposited in the sediment as a part of organic matter, making it biologically non‐available. It is reported that about 10% of the fertilizer that is applied causes an increase of dissolved inorganic P in the water phase, whereas the rest is rapidly precipitated and settled at the bottom and converted into insoluble compounds (Hu et al., 2010; Jana, 2007). For these reasons, concentrations of total phosphorus (TP) are high in the sediment of aquaculture pond ecosystems; however, concentrations of P are low in the 
TI - Screening and evaluation of phosphate‐solubilizing bacteria isolated from aquaculture ponds in a step‐by‐step strategy as potential biofertilizer
JF - Journal of Applied Microbiology
DO - 10.1111/jam.15660
DA - 2022-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/screening-and-evaluation-of-phosphate-solubilizing-bacteria-isolated-OSJk47lIWV
SP - 1581
EP - 1596
VL - 133
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -