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Root-soil-microbiome management is key to the success of Regenerative Agriculture (2024)
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Building soil health and manipulating the soil microbiome, alongside targeted plant breeding that prioritizes preferential root architectural development, hold the key to the future success of regenerative agriculture. Greater integration is needed b... Read More about Root-soil-microbiome management is key to the success of Regenerative Agriculture.

Zero-tillage induces significant changes to the soil pore network and hydraulic function after 7 years (2024)
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Zero-tillage and ploughing are highly contrasting soil management practices that have distinct roles in generating soil porosity. Ploughed systems employ anthropogenic perturbation to manage weed pressure and ensure optimal conditions at time of sowi... Read More about Zero-tillage induces significant changes to the soil pore network and hydraulic function after 7 years.

Inorganic carbon is overlooked in global soil carbon research: A bibliometric analysis (2024)
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Soils are a major player in the global carbon (C) cycle and climate change by functioning as a sink or a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The largest terrestrial C reservoir in soils comprises two main pools: organic (SOC) and inorganic C... Read More about Inorganic carbon is overlooked in global soil carbon research: A bibliometric analysis.

Herbal leys have no effect on soil porosity, earthworm abundance, and microbial community composition compared to a grass-clover ley in a sheep grazed grassland after 2-years (2024)
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Herbal leys (multispecies swards) can potentially deliver greater agronomic and environmental benefits than conventional grass-clover swards in grazed agroecosystems. However, despite their popularity in agri-environment schemes, little is known abou... Read More about Herbal leys have no effect on soil porosity, earthworm abundance, and microbial community composition compared to a grass-clover ley in a sheep grazed grassland after 2-years.

Root plasticity vs. elasticity – When are responses acclimative? (2024)
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Spatiotemporal soil heterogeneity and the resulting edaphic stress cycles can be decisive for crop growth. However, our understanding of the acclimative value of root responses to heterogeneous soil conditions remains limited. We outline a framework... Read More about Root plasticity vs. elasticity – When are responses acclimative?.

The effects of soil compaction on wheat seedling root growth are specific to soil texture and soil moisture status (2023)
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Soil structure is a crucial soil physical property that determines a soil's ability to support the growth and development of plants. Soil compaction modifies soil structure by reducing pore space between soil particles thereby leading to a denser soi... Read More about The effects of soil compaction on wheat seedling root growth are specific to soil texture and soil moisture status.

Understanding how management can prevent degradation of the structurally fragile soils of the Amazonian periphery (2023)
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The dynamics and responses to mulching management processes, which affect sustainability in tropical agroecosystems, remain poorly understood. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate and distinguish the short-and long-term effects of... Read More about Understanding how management can prevent degradation of the structurally fragile soils of the Amazonian periphery.

Soil structure has a greater effect on the rooting of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) than nitrogen fertilisation rate or genotype (2023)
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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.

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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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.

Arable soil nitrogen dynamics reflect organic inputs via the extended composite phenotype (2022)
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Achieving food security requires resilient agricultural systems with improved nutrient-use efficiency, optimized water and nutrient storage in soils, and reduced gaseous emissions. Success relies on understanding coupled nitrogen and carbon metabolis... Read More about Arable soil nitrogen dynamics reflect organic inputs via the extended composite phenotype.

No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe (2022)
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Caused by Yersinia pestis, plague ravaged the world through three known pandemics: the First or the Justinianic (6th–8th century); the Second (beginning with the Black Death during c.1338–1353 and lasting until the 19th century); and the Third (which... Read More about No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe.

Hydraulic flux–responsive hormone redistribution determines root branching (2022)
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Plant roots exhibit plasticity in their branching patterns to forage efficiently for heterogeneously distributed resources, such as soil water. The xerobranching response represses lateral root formation when roots lose contact with water. Here, we s... Read More about Hydraulic flux–responsive hormone redistribution determines root branching.

A Comparison of the Differences in Soil Structure under Long-Term Conservation Agriculture Relative to a Secondary Forest (2022)
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Conservation agriculture is increasingly preferred to conventional methods due to its benefits in promoting more sustainable soil management. Our study aims to compare physical and morphological properties, at the microscale, of soils under long-term... Read More about A Comparison of the Differences in Soil Structure under Long-Term Conservation Agriculture Relative to a Secondary Forest.

Defining the scope for altering rice leaf anatomy to improve photosynthesis: a modelling approach (2022)
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Leaf structure plays an important role in photosynthesis. However, the causal relationship and the quantitative importance of any single structural parameter to the overall photosynthetic performance of a leaf remains open to debate. In this paper, w... Read More about Defining the scope for altering rice leaf anatomy to improve photosynthesis: a modelling approach.

Soil pore system complexity and heterogeneity as affected by contrasting management practices (2022)
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To better understand the changes that occur in soil systems at different scales, researchers have been using concepts from the multifractal theory for investigating intricate and heterogeneous complex structures. This analysis has also been applied t... Read More about Soil pore system complexity and heterogeneity as affected by contrasting management practices.

Root angle is controlled by EGT1in cereal crops employing anantigravitropic mechanism (2022)
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Root angle in crops represents a key trait for efficient capture of soil resources. Root angle is determined by competing gravitropic versus anti-gravitropic offset (AGO) mechanisms. Here we report a new root angle regulatory gene termed ENHANCED GRA... Read More about Root angle is controlled by EGT1in cereal crops employing anantigravitropic mechanism.

Ethylene inhibits rice root elongation in compacted soil via ABA- and auxin-mediated mechanisms (2022)
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Soil compaction represents a major agronomic challenge, inhibiting root elongation and impacting crop yields. Roots use ethylene to sense soil compaction as the restricted air space causes this gaseous signal to accumulate around root tips. Ethylene... Read More about Ethylene inhibits rice root elongation in compacted soil via ABA- and auxin-mediated mechanisms.

A new theory for soil health (2022)
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The term “soil health” has captured the interest of government, and land managers, whilst the academic community has struggled to rationalise its use and wider benefit. It has proved a powerful tool in conveying best practice to a lay audience. Howev... Read More about A new theory for soil health.

Zero tillage has important consequences for soil pore architecture and hydraulic transport: A review (2022)
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Following the adoption of zero-tillage (ZT) from conventional tillage (CT), the soil pore network undergoes immediate and significant changes. As soil remains undisturbed for an extended period, a soil structure emerges that is primarily generated an... Read More about Zero tillage has important consequences for soil pore architecture and hydraulic transport: A review.

Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells (2021)
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Environmental structure describes physical structure that can determine heterogenous spatial distribution of biotic and abiotic (nutrients, stressors etc.) components of a microorganism's microenvironment. This study investigated the impact of microm... Read More about Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells.