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Soil structure has a greater effect on the rooting of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) than nitrogen fertilisation rate or genotype (2023)
Journal Article
Mawodza, T., Zhou, H., Atkinson, B. S., Atkinson, J. A., Sturrock, C. J., Riche, A. B., Whalley, W. R., Hawkesford, M. J., Cooper, H. V., & Mooney, S. J. (2023). Soil structure has a greater effect on the rooting of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) than nitrogen fertilisation rate or genotype. Rhizosphere, 27, Article 100770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2023.100770

Despite extensive research over the last century concerning the application of nitrogen fertilizer to support the production of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), our understanding on how this impacts on root growth in subsoils is limited. In this study,... Read More about Soil structure has a greater effect on the rooting of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) than nitrogen fertilisation rate or genotype.

Understory vegetation supports more abundant and diverse butterfly communities in oil palm plantations (2023)
Journal Article
Reiss-Woolever, V. J., Advento, A. D., Aryawan, A. A. K., Caliman, J.-P., Foster, W. A., Naim, M., Pujianto, Purnomo, D., Soeprapto, Suhardi, Tarigan, R. S., Wahyuningsih, R., Rambe, T. D. S., Ps, S., Widodo, R. H., Luke, S. H., Snaddon, J. L., & Turner, E. C. (2023). Understory vegetation supports more abundant and diverse butterfly communities in oil palm plantations. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6, Article 1205744. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1205744

Introduction: The cultivation of oil palm, from which palm oil, the world’s most widely traded vegetable oil, is processed, has had marked effects on ecosystems and native species across the tropics. While declines in biodiversity due to conversion t... Read More about Understory vegetation supports more abundant and diverse butterfly communities in oil palm plantations.

Non-invasive imaging of soil processes (2023)
Book Chapter
Sturrock, C. J. (2023). Non-invasive imaging of soil processes. In Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment (second edition). Volume 5 (459-468). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822974-3.00151-8

Non-invasive imaging techniques provide a unique ability to investigate soil processes with minimal disturbance to its natural state. This chapter provides an overview of the key non-invasive techniques, their operating principals and their areas of... Read More about Non-invasive imaging of soil processes.

Indian Ocean glacial deoxygenation and respired carbon accumulation during mid-late Quaternary ice ages (2023)
Journal Article
Chang, L., Hoogakker, B. A., Heslop, D., Zhao, X., Roberts, A. P., De Deckker, P., Xue, P., Pei, Z., Zeng, F., Huang, R., Huang, B., Wang, S., Berndt, T. A., Leng, M., Stuut, J. B. W., & Harrison, R. J. (2023). Indian Ocean glacial deoxygenation and respired carbon accumulation during mid-late Quaternary ice ages. Nature Communications, 14, Article 4841. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40452-1

Reconstructions of ocean oxygenation are critical for understanding the role of respired carbon storage in regulating atmospheric CO2. Independent sediment redox proxies are essential to assess such reconstructions. Here, we present a long magnetofos... Read More about Indian Ocean glacial deoxygenation and respired carbon accumulation during mid-late Quaternary ice ages.

Trade‐offs in plant responses to the environment (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). Trade‐offs in plant responses to the environment. Plant, Cell and Environment, 46(10), 2943-2945. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14689

Tropical peat surface oscillations are a function of peat condition at North Selangor peat swamp forest, Malaysia (2023)
Journal Article
Ledger, M. J., Evans, C. D., Large, D. J., Evers, S., Brown, C., Jovani-Sancho, A. J., Callaghan, N., Vane, C. H., Marshall, C., Baskaran, A., Gan, J. Y., Sowter, A., Morrison, K., & Sjögersten, S. (2023). Tropical peat surface oscillations are a function of peat condition at North Selangor peat swamp forest, Malaysia. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11, Article 1182100. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1182100

Tropical peatland condition across southeast Asia is deteriorating as a result of conversion to agriculture and urban zones. Conversion begins by lowering the water table, which leads to peat decomposition, subsidence and increased risk of large-scal... Read More about Tropical peat surface oscillations are a function of peat condition at North Selangor peat swamp forest, Malaysia.

ERFVII action and modulation through oxygen-sensing in Arabidopsis thaliana (2023)
Journal Article
Zubrycka, A., Dambire, C., Dalle Carbonare, L., Sharma, G., Boeckx, T., Swarup, K., Sturrock, C. J., Atkinson, B. S., Swarup, R., Corbineau, F., Oldham, N. J., & Holdsworth, M. J. (2023). ERFVII action and modulation through oxygen-sensing in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Communications, 14, Article 4665. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40366-y

Oxygen is a key signalling component of plant biology, and whilst an oxygen-sensing mechanism was previously described in Arabidopsis thaliana, key features of the associated PLANT CYSTEINE OXIDASE (PCO) N-degron pathway and Group VII ETHYLENE RESPON... Read More about ERFVII action and modulation through oxygen-sensing in Arabidopsis thaliana.

A simple method for testing and controlling inhibition in soil and sediment samples for qPCR (2023)
Journal Article
Bott, T., Shaw, G., & Gregory, S. (2023). A simple method for testing and controlling inhibition in soil and sediment samples for qPCR. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 212, Article 106795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2023.106795

The presence of polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) inhibitors in many environmental samples can make reliable and repeatable quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction (qPCR) analysis difficult without sample dilution. To estimate an optimal sample dilution... Read More about A simple method for testing and controlling inhibition in soil and sediment samples for qPCR.

Life at the extreme: Plant-driven hotspots of soil nutrient cycling in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert (2023)
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Jones, D. L., Fuentes, B., Arenas-Díaz, F., Remonsellez, F., van Hall, R., Atkinson, B. S., Mooney, S. J., & Bol, R. (2023). Life at the extreme: Plant-driven hotspots of soil nutrient cycling in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 184, Article 109128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109128

The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert represents one of the most intense environments on Earth, often being used as an analog for Mars regolith. The area is characterized by extremes in climate (e.g., temperature, humidity, UV irradiation) and eda... Read More about Life at the extreme: Plant-driven hotspots of soil nutrient cycling in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert.

A pilot survey of selenium status and its geospatial variation among children and women in three rural districts of Zimbabwe (2023)
Journal Article
Mutonhodza, B., Chagumaira, C., Dembedza, M. P., Joy, E. J., Manzeke-Kangara, M. G., Njovo, H., Nyadzayo, T. K., Lark, R. M., Kalimbira, A. A., Bailey, E. H., Broadley, M. R., Matsungo, T. M., & Chopera, P. (2023). A pilot survey of selenium status and its geospatial variation among children and women in three rural districts of Zimbabwe. Frontiers in Nutrition, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1235113

Introduction: Selenium (Se) deficiency is increasingly recognized as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa.

Methods: The current cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence and geospatial patterns of Se deficiency among children aged 6–5... Read More about A pilot survey of selenium status and its geospatial variation among children and women in three rural districts of Zimbabwe.