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Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes (2022)
Book Chapter
Murchie, E. H., McAusland, L., & Burgess, A. J. (2022). Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes. In A. Ruban, C. H. Foyer, & E. H. Murchie (Eds.), Photosynthesis in Action: Harvesting Light, Generating Electrons, Fixing Carbon (103-132). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-823781-6.00011-3

Chloroplast CO2 assimilation rate is highly sensitive to environmental changes, and this has a great influence on productivity. Changes in temperature, light, humidity, nutrients, and salinity can all affect processes that limit photosynthesis. In th... Read More about Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes.

Biofortified Wheat Increases Dietary Zinc Intake: A Randomised Controlled Efficacy Study of Zincol-2016 in Rural Pakistan (2022)
Journal Article
Lowe, N. M., Zaman, M., Khan, M. J., Brazier, A. K., Shahzad, B., Ullah, U., …Tishkovskaya, S. (2022). Biofortified Wheat Increases Dietary Zinc Intake: A Randomised Controlled Efficacy Study of Zincol-2016 in Rural Pakistan. Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, Article 809783. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.809783

A new variety of zinc biofortified wheat (Zincol-2016) was released in Pakistan in 2016. The primary aim of this study was to examine the effects of consuming Zincol-2016 wheat flour on biochemical and functional markers of zinc status in a populatio... Read More about Biofortified Wheat Increases Dietary Zinc Intake: A Randomised Controlled Efficacy Study of Zincol-2016 in Rural Pakistan.

Identifying Sustainable Nitrogen Management Practices for Tea Plantations (2022)
Journal Article
Rebello, R., Burgess, P. J., & Girkin, N. T. (2022). Identifying Sustainable Nitrogen Management Practices for Tea Plantations. Nitrogen, 3(1), 43-57. https://doi.org/10.3390/nitrogen3010003

Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It is mostly grown in the tropics with a heavy dependence on mineral nitrogen (N) fertilisers to maintain high yields while minimising the areas under cultivation. However,... Read More about Identifying Sustainable Nitrogen Management Practices for Tea Plantations.

Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion (2022)
Journal Article
Cañadas, F., Papineau, D., Leng, M. J., & Li, C. (2022). Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion. Nature Communications, 13, Article 148. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27812-5

Member IV of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation records the recovery from the most negative carbon isotope excursion in Earth history. However, the main biogeochemical controls that ultimately drove this recovery have yet to be elucidated. Here, we r... Read More about Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion.

Biofortified Maize Improves Selenium Status of Women and Children in a Rural Community in Malawi: Results of the Addressing Hidden Hunger With Agronomy Randomized Controlled Trial (2022)
Journal Article
Joy, E. J., Kalimbira, A. A., Sturgess, J., Banda, L., Chiutsi-Phiri, G., Manase, H., …Allen, E. (2022). Biofortified Maize Improves Selenium Status of Women and Children in a Rural Community in Malawi: Results of the Addressing Hidden Hunger With Agronomy Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, Article 788096. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.788096

Background: Selenium deficiency is widespread in the Malawi population. The selenium concentration in maize, the staple food crop of Malawi, can be increased by applying selenium-enriched fertilizers. It is unknown whether this strategy, called agron... Read More about Biofortified Maize Improves Selenium Status of Women and Children in a Rural Community in Malawi: Results of the Addressing Hidden Hunger With Agronomy Randomized Controlled Trial.

Discovery Of A Bone In Chimpanzee Hearts (2022)
Journal Article
Sturrock, C. J., Stanford, K., Moittie, S., Baiker, K., Redrobe, S., & Rutland, C. S. (2022). Discovery Of A Bone In Chimpanzee Hearts. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9, Article 592105. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2021.592105

The os cordis (heart bone) is a rare bone found only in a few animals in the world. We discovered an os cordis in some chimpanzees. The os cordis was found in males and females, and in young and old animals. It was not present in chimps with healthy... Read More about Discovery Of A Bone In Chimpanzee Hearts.

Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427 (2021)
Journal Article
Henderson, A. C. G., Felder, S., Sagawa, T., Greaves, M., Leng, M. J., Ikehara, K., …Henderson, A. C. (2022). Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004236

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, such as the East Asian monsoon, have been proposed as possible feedbacks of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT). Marine sediments of the Japan Sea (JS) record variations in the East Asian monsoon over lo... Read More about Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427.

Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain (2021)
Journal Article
Sargent, C., Ebanks, B., Hardy, I. C., Davies, T. G. E., Chakrabarti, L., & Stöger, R. (2021). Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain. Frontiers in Insect Science, 1, Article 765179. https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2021.765179

Mitochondria are intracellular organelles responsible for cellular respiration with one of their major roles in the production of energy in the form of ATP. Activities with increased energetic demand are especially dependent on efficient ATP producti... Read More about Acute Imidacloprid Exposure Alters Mitochondrial Function in Bumblebee Flight Muscle and Brain.

Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells (2021)
Journal Article
Harvey, H. J., Chubynsky, M. V., Sprittles, J. E., Shor, L. M., Mooney, S. J., Wildman, R. D., & Avery, S. V. (2022). Application of microfluidic systems in modelling impacts of environmental structure on stress-sensing by individual microbial cells. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 20, 128-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.11.039

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.

Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops (2021)
Journal Article
Scharff, L. B., Saltenis, V. L., Jensen, P. E., Baekelandt, A., Burgess, A. J., Burow, M., …Pribil, M. (2022). Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops. Food and Energy Security, 11(1), Article e327. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.327

A growing world population as well as the need to enhance sustainability and health create challenges for crop breeding. To address these challenges, not only quantitative but also qualitative improvements are needed, especially regarding the macro-... Read More about Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops.

Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years (2021)
Journal Article
Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Leng, M., Lomax, B., …Jacobsen, G. (2022). Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00222-9

Lake sediments are important archives of past climate variability and lake responses to climate. In order to accurately infer past climates, it is necessary to understand, and account for, the ecological processes that affect the record of indicators... Read More about Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years.

Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments (2021)
Journal Article
Shetaya, W. H., Bailey, E. H., Young, S. D., Mohamed, E. F., Antoniadis, V., Rinklebe, J., …Marzouk, E. R. (2021). Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-01097-5

The aim of this work was to assess the origins, mobility, bioavailability and potential health risks of V, Cr, Co, As, Se, Mo, Cd, Sn and Sb, which are not sufficiently studied in the terrestrial environment of Egypt. This has been carried out by emp... Read More about Soil and plant contamination by potentially toxic and emerging elements and the associated human health risk in some Egyptian environments.

Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey (2021)
Journal Article
Jacobson, M. J., Flohr, P., Gascoigne, A., Leng, M. J., Sadekov, A., Cheng, H., …Fleitmann, D. (2021). Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20), Article e2021GL094733. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094733

Palaeoclimate variability must be constrained to predict the nature and impacts of future climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here, we present a late Holocene high-resolution multiproxy data set from Kocain Cave, the first of its kind from S... Read More about Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey.

Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time (2021)
Journal Article
Ramkissoon, C., Degryse, F., Young, S., Bailey, E. H., & McLaughlin, M. J. (2021). Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time. Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, Article 732409. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.732409

Foliar selenium (Se) fertilisation has been shown to be more efficient than soil-applied fertilisation, but the dynamics of absorption and translocation have not yet been explored. An experiment was undertaken to investigate time-dependent changes in... Read More about Using 77Se-Labelled Foliar Fertilisers to Determine How Se Transfers Within Wheat Over Time.

Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Zhang, X., Neal, A. L., Crawford, J. W., Mooney, S. J., & Bacq-Labreuil, A. (2022). Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes. Soil and Tillage Research, 215, Article 105226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2021.105226

Aggregates are functional units to describe the impact of soil structural changes on physical and biogeochemical processes in soil. Both incubation and field experiments have shown that changing agricultural practices could reshape the intra-aggregat... Read More about Evolution of the transport properties of soil aggregates and their relationship with soil organic carbon following land use changes.

Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review (2021)
Journal Article
Cook, S., Abolfathi, S., & Gilbert, N. I. (2021). Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review. Freshwater Science, 40(4), 567-579. https://doi.org/10.1086/717227

The role of citizen science in environmental monitoring has received interest in the research community over the last decade, with citizen scientists playing a key role in engaging with and gathering scientific evidence to support natural resource ma... Read More about Goals and approaches in the use of citizen science for exploring plastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems: A review.

Temporal changes in litterfall and potential nutrient return in cocoa agroforestry systems under organic and conventional management, Ghana (2021)
Journal Article
Asigbaase, M., Dawoe, E., Lomax, B. H., & Sjogersten, S. (2021). Temporal changes in litterfall and potential nutrient return in cocoa agroforestry systems under organic and conventional management, Ghana. Heliyon, 7(10), Article e08051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08051

Litterfall is a critical link between vegetation and soils by which nutrients are returned to the soils, thus the amount and pattern of litterfall regulates nutrient cycling, soil fertility and primary productivity for most terrestrial ecosystems. We... Read More about Temporal changes in litterfall and potential nutrient return in cocoa agroforestry systems under organic and conventional management, Ghana.

The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise (2021)
Journal Article
Wallach, D., Palosuo, T., Thorburn, P., Hochman, Z., Gourdain, E., Andrianasolo, F., …Seidel, S. J. (2021). The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise. Environmental Modelling and Software, 145, Article 105206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105206

Calibration, the estimation of model parameters based on fitting the model to experimental data, is among the first steps in many applications of process-based models and has an important impact on simulated values. We propose a novel method of devel... Read More about The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise.

Shifts in Soil Structure, Biological, and Functional Diversity Under Long-Term Carbon Deprivation (2021)
Journal Article
George, P. B., Fidler, D. B., Van Nostrand, J. D., Atkinson, J. A., Mooney, S. J., Creer, S., …Jones, D. L. (2021). Shifts in Soil Structure, Biological, and Functional Diversity Under Long-Term Carbon Deprivation. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.735022

Soil organic matter is composed of a variety of carbon (C) forms. However, not all forms are equally accessible to soil microorganisms. Deprivation of C inputs will cause changes in the physical and microbial community structures of soils; yet the tr... Read More about Shifts in Soil Structure, Biological, and Functional Diversity Under Long-Term Carbon Deprivation.

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments (2021)
Journal Article
Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Marshall, J., Kent, M., Tyler, J., Barr, C., …Lomax, B. H. (2021). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 581, Article 110622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110622

The source of sedimentary organic matter in lakes can help to elucidate climate and catchment variation and processes that reflect lake development. Common techniques for tracing sediment organic matter sources, such as the stable isotopes and elemen... Read More about Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a tracer of organic matter sources in lake sediments.