Response to Referee 1

Abstract

Dear reviewer, Thank you for your incisive review of the MS. We hope to address all your comments here. The references provided are also very pertinent and informative and will improve the manuscript. R1: ".. .it lacks in-depth insights of current "P models" to justify its statement that these processes should be improved in models. It is partly because some of the processes or features are simply ignored in current models, such as phytate, and partly because the proposed processes by authors are not particularly discussed by modeling community yet.