The Role of Low Phosphorus in Plant Growth

The fact that low phosphorus triggers the production of carnivorous morphology doesn't necessarily say that what the plant needs is phosphorus or that it's getting phosphorus. It just says that you've got a trigger, which could be that it needs phosphorus and this is a way to get it from insects. But why wouldn't, I mean, if it's a proxy for I need nitrogen, why wouldn't low nitrogen trigger it as well? And so there's a delay there, right? So it could be that there's some sort of pattern, like if there's a leaching issue that the soils are going to be depleted by the high flow through of water Or something like this.

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