Long- and short-term phosphate deprivation in bean roots: Plasma membrane lipid alterations and transient stimulation of phospholipases

In bean roots subjected to phosphate deprivation the decrease in plasma membrane phospholipids is compensated for by an increase in the non-phosphorous digalactosyldiacylglycerol. Phosphate starvation also induces an activation of the phospholipid-hydrolysing phospholipases C and D.