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Cover crops affect the partial nitrogen balance in a maize-forage cropping system (2019)
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Rocha, K., Souza, M., Almeida, D., Chadwick, D., Jones, D., & Mooney, S. (2020). Cover crops affect the partial nitrogen balance in a maize-forage cropping system. Geoderma, 360, 114000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114000

Part of the nitrogen (N) fertilizer applied to crops is lost to the environment, contributing to global warming, eutrophication, and groundwater contamination. However, low N supply stimulates soil organic N turnover and carbon (C) loss, since the so... Read More about Cover crops affect the partial nitrogen balance in a maize-forage cropping system.

Developmental roles of AUX1/LAX auxin influx carriers in plants (2019)
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Swarup, R., & Bhosale, R. (2019). Developmental roles of AUX1/LAX auxin influx carriers in plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01306

Plant hormone auxin regulates several aspects of plant growth and development. Auxin is predominantly synthesized in the shoot apex and developing leaf primordia and from there it is transported to the target tissues e.g. roots. Auxin transport is po... Read More about Developmental roles of AUX1/LAX auxin influx carriers in plants.

Enhanced glacial discharge from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula since the 1700s associated with a positive Southern Annular Mode (2019)
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Dickens, W. A., Kuhn, G., Leng, M. J., Graham, A. G., Dowdeswell, J. A., Meredith, M. P., …Smith, J. A. (2019). Enhanced glacial discharge from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula since the 1700s associated with a positive Southern Annular Mode. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 14606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50897-4

© 2019, The Author(s). The Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet is currently experiencing sustained and accelerating loss of ice. Determining when these changes were initiated and identifying the main drivers is hampered by the short instrumental record (19... Read More about Enhanced glacial discharge from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula since the 1700s associated with a positive Southern Annular Mode.

Future socioeconomic conditions may have a larger impact than climate change on nutrient loads to the Baltic Sea (2019)
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Bartosova, A., Capell, R., Olesen, J. E., Jabloun, M., Refsgaard, J. C., Donnelly, C., …Arheimer, B. (2019). Future socioeconomic conditions may have a larger impact than climate change on nutrient loads to the Baltic Sea. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 48(11), 1325-1336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01243-5

© 2019, The Author(s). The Baltic Sea is suffering from eutrophication caused by nutrient discharges from land to sea, and these loads might change in a changing climate. We show that the impact from climate change by mid-century is probably less tha... Read More about Future socioeconomic conditions may have a larger impact than climate change on nutrient loads to the Baltic Sea.

Test-takers’ perspectives on a global test of English: questions of fairness, justice and validity (2019)
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Hamid, M. O., Hardy, I., & Reyes, V. (2019). Test-takers’ perspectives on a global test of English: questions of fairness, justice and validity. Language Testing in Asia, 9(1), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40468-019-0092-9

Although language test-takers have been the focus of much theoretical and empirical work in recent years, this work has been mainly concerned with their attitudes to test preparation and test-taking strategies, giving insufficient attention to their... Read More about Test-takers’ perspectives on a global test of English: questions of fairness, justice and validity.

Methane emissions from tree stems in neotropical peatlands (2019)
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Sjögersten, S., Siegenthaler, A., Lopez, O. R., Aplin, P., Turner, B., & Gauci, V. (2020). Methane emissions from tree stems in neotropical peatlands. New Phytologist, 225(2), 769-781. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16178

Neotropical peatlands emit large amounts of methane (CH4) from the soil surface, but fluxes from tree stems in these ecosystems are unknown. In this study we investigated CH4 emissions from five tree species in two forest types common to neotropical... Read More about Methane emissions from tree stems in neotropical peatlands.

Zinc uptake and phyto-toxicity: Comparing intensity- and capacity-based drivers (2019)
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Mossa, A., Young, S. D., & Crout, N. M. (2020). Zinc uptake and phyto-toxicity: Comparing intensity- and capacity-based drivers. Science of the Total Environment, 699, Article 134314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134314

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Metal bioavailability and phytotoxicity may be exaggerated when derived from studies based on amending soils with soluble metal salts. It is therefore important to evaluate soil tests for their consistency in estimating plant upt... Read More about Zinc uptake and phyto-toxicity: Comparing intensity- and capacity-based drivers.

Stable isotopes reveal independent carbon pools across an Arctic hydro-climatic gradient: Implications for the fate of carbon in warmer and drier conditions (2019)
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Osburn, C. L., Anderson, N. J., Leng, M. J., Barry, C. D., & Whiteford, E. J. (2019). Stable isotopes reveal independent carbon pools across an Arctic hydro-climatic gradient: Implications for the fate of carbon in warmer and drier conditions. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 4(6), 205-213. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10119

Arctic lakes are poised for substantial changes to their carbon (C) cycles in the near future. Autochthonous processes in lakes which consume inorganic C and create biomass that can be sequestered in sediments are accompanied by allochthonous inputs... Read More about Stable isotopes reveal independent carbon pools across an Arctic hydro-climatic gradient: Implications for the fate of carbon in warmer and drier conditions.

Uptake of trace elements by food crops grown within the Kilembe copper mine catchment, Western Uganda (2019)
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Mwesigye, A. R., Young, S. D., Bailey, E. H., & Tumwebaze, S. B. (2019). Uptake of trace elements by food crops grown within the Kilembe copper mine catchment, Western Uganda. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 207, Article 106377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2019.106377

The mining and processing of copper from the Kilembe mine between 1956 and 1982 left behind millions of tons of cupriferous and cobalt ferrous mine tailings within the Kilembe mine catchment. Subsequent erosion and deposition of the tailings into adj... Read More about Uptake of trace elements by food crops grown within the Kilembe copper mine catchment, Western Uganda.

Ginkgo leaf cuticle chemistry across changing pCO2 regimes (2019)
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Jardine, P. E., Kent, M., Fraser, W. T., & Lomax, B. H. (2019). Ginkgo leaf cuticle chemistry across changing pCO2 regimes. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 93(3), 549-558. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-019-00486-7

Cuticles have been a key part of palaeobotanical research since the mid-19th Century. Recently, cuticular research has moved beyond morphological traits to incorporate the chemical signature of modern and fossil cuticles, with the aim of using this a... Read More about Ginkgo leaf cuticle chemistry across changing pCO2 regimes.

Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK (2019)
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Atar, E., März, C., Aplin, A. C., Dellwig, O., Herringshaw, L. G., Lamoureux-Var, V., …Wagner, T. (2019). Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK. Climate of the Past, 15(4), 1581-1601. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1581-2019

The Kimmeridge Clay Formation (KCF) is a laterally extensive, total-organic-carbon-rich succession deposited throughout northwest Europe during the Kimmeridgian–Tithonian (Late Jurassic). It has recently been postulated that an expanded Hadley cell,... Read More about Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK.

The uptake of different tillage practices in England (2019)
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Alskaf, K., Sparkes, D. L., Mooney, S. J., Sjögersten, S., & Wilson, P. (2020). The uptake of different tillage practices in England. Soil Use and Management, 36(1), 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12542

Reduced tillage systems have been argued to provide several potential benefits to soil, environment and to farm incomes. In England, while many farms have partially adopted such practices, a large proportion of arable farmers do not undertake reduced... Read More about The uptake of different tillage practices in England.

Analysis of 129I and 127I in soils of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 29 years after the deposition of 129I (2019)
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Shaw, G., Bailey, E., Crout, N., Field, L., Freeman, S., Gaschak, S., …Young, S. (2019). Analysis of 129I and 127I in soils of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 29 years after the deposition of 129I. Science of the Total Environment, 692, 966-974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.319

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) represents a unique natural laboratory that received significant 129I contamination across a range of soils and land-use types in a short time period in 1986. Data are presented on 129I and 127I in soil samples coll... Read More about Analysis of 129I and 127I in soils of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 29 years after the deposition of 129I.

A heritable subset of the core rumen microbiome dictates dairy cow productivity and emissions (2019)
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Wallace, R. J., Sasson, G., Garnsworthy, P. C., Tapio, I., Gregson, E., Bani, P., …Mizrahi, I. (2019). A heritable subset of the core rumen microbiome dictates dairy cow productivity and emissions. Science Advances, 5(7), Article eaav8391. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav8391

A 1000-cow study across four European countries was undertaken to understand to what extent ruminant microbiomes can be controlled by the host animal and to identify characteristics of the host rumen microbiome axis that determine productivity and me... Read More about A heritable subset of the core rumen microbiome dictates dairy cow productivity and emissions.

Mesophyll porosity is modulated by the presence of functional stomata (2019)
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Lundgren, M. R., Mathers, A., Baillie, A. L., Dunn, J., Wilson, M. J., Hunt, L., …Fleming, A. J. (2019). Mesophyll porosity is modulated by the presence of functional stomata. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 2825. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10826-5

The formation of stomata and leaf mesophyll airspace must be coordinated to establish an efficient and robust network that facilitates gas exchange for photosynthesis, however the mechanism by which this coordinated development occurs remains unclear... Read More about Mesophyll porosity is modulated by the presence of functional stomata.

Evaluation of vegetation communities, water table, and peat composition as drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in lowland tropical peatlands (2019)
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Hoyos-Santillan, J., Lomax, B. H., Large, D., Turner, B. L., Lopez, O. R., Boom, A., …Sjögersten, S. (2019). Evaluation of vegetation communities, water table, and peat composition as drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in lowland tropical peatlands. Science of the Total Environment, 688, 1193-1204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.366

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Tropical peatlands are globally important source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but data on carbon fluxes from these ecosystems is limited due to the logistical challenges of measuring gas fluxes in these ecosystems. Prop... Read More about Evaluation of vegetation communities, water table, and peat composition as drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in lowland tropical peatlands.

Agronomic biofortification of cowpea with selenium: effects of selenate and selenite applications on selenium and phytate concentrations in seeds (2019)
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Silva, V. M., Boleta, E. H., Martins, J. T., Santos, F. L., Rocha Silva, A. C., Alcock, T. D., …Reis, A. R. (2019). Agronomic biofortification of cowpea with selenium: effects of selenate and selenite applications on selenium and phytate concentrations in seeds. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 99(13), 5969-5983. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.9872

BACKGROUND Selenium (Se) is a nutrient for animals and humans, and is considered beneficial to higher plants. Selenium concentrations are low in most soils, which can result in a lack of Se in plants, and consequently in human diets. Phytic acid (PA... Read More about Agronomic biofortification of cowpea with selenium: effects of selenate and selenite applications on selenium and phytate concentrations in seeds.

Climate change is expected to increase yield and water use efficiency of wheat in the North China Plain (2019)
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Rashid, M. A., Jabloun, M., Andersen, M. N., Zhang, X., & Olesen, J. E. (2019). Climate change is expected to increase yield and water use efficiency of wheat in the North China Plain. Agricultural Water Management, 222, 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2019.06.004

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Climate change impacts on winter wheat yield and water-use were assessed with the AquaCrop model for different representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios (RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, RCP 6.0 and RCP 8.5) and time slices (2040s, 2... Read More about Climate change is expected to increase yield and water use efficiency of wheat in the North China Plain.

Chemotaxonomy of domesticated grasses: a pathway to understanding the origins of agriculture (2019)
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Jardine, P. E., Gosling, W. D., Lomax, B. H., Julier, A. C. M., & Fraser, W. T. (2019). Chemotaxonomy of domesticated grasses: a pathway to understanding the origins of agriculture. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 38(1), 83-95. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-38-83-2019

The grass family (Poaceae) is one of the most economically important plant groups in the world today. In particular many major food crops, including rice, wheat, maize, rye, barley, oats and millet, are grasses that were domesticated from wild progen... Read More about Chemotaxonomy of domesticated grasses: a pathway to understanding the origins of agriculture.

Impact of soil puddling intensity on the root system architecture of rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings (2019)
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Fang, H., Rong, H., Hallett, P. D., Mooney, S. J., Zhang, W., Zhou, H., & Peng, X. (2019). Impact of soil puddling intensity on the root system architecture of rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings. Soil and Tillage Research, 193, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2019.05.022

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Puddling of rice paddies is undertaken to create a soft soil bed for easy transplanting of rice seedlings, to control weeds and reduce water and nutrient leaching. There is a drive for less intense puddling because of its physica... Read More about Impact of soil puddling intensity on the root system architecture of rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings.