Field day is a fun day. Started gas measurements on our long-term reduced tillage trial.
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Our poster is up at Rhizosphere conference!
Come check it out and have a look 👀
Looking forward to your thoughts and discussions!
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Collected 1-meter-deep soil cores for our Delivering Sustainable Wheat @dsw-isp.bsky.social project. The cores will be scanned using X-ray CT for soil structural and root architectural analyses. @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social

Our paper has featured in Nature Climate Change as a Research Highlight.

Plant processes matter in soil carbon research

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Original paper: soil.copernicus.org/articles/11/...

Honoured to see our recent Nature Plants paper featured in the UK’s Crop Production Magazine. The article highlights our call for stronger integration between plant breeding and soil science, with expert views from across the industry. Great to see this conversation gaining momentum.

Published in SOIL – selected as a Highlight paper by editors. Plant physiological processes regulate organic carbon (C) inputs to soils, yet are overlooked in soil organic C research, limiting our understanding of C dynamics and sequestration potential.

doi.org/10.5194/soil...

It was a good day for fieldwork. We installed soil moisture sensors and took gas measurements as part of the Delivering Sustainable Wheat project.

Our paper in Nature Plants is finally online.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have highlighted that modern crop breeding and seed certification agencies ignore the known spatial heterogeneity of soils and develop cultivars to thrive in a ‘one-size-fits-all’ soil environment.

We explored the long-term impact of nitrogen fertilizer in a 7-year study. Initial N applications caused 237-489 kg N ha⁻¹ accumulation in the 0-2 m soil profile. The "legacy N" effect continued to benefit crop for the next 5 years, accompanied by decreasing nitrate levels.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...

Plant physiological processes regulate soil organic carbon inputs, yet they are largely overlooked in organic carbon research, limiting our understanding of carbon dynamics and sequestration potential. Plant and soil scientists should work together on SOC.

egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Our first snowfall of the season.

We quantified Pakistan’s nitrogen budget for over five decades. Pakistan’s nitrogen use efficiency is less than 25%, one of the lowest in the world. Huge increases in surplus nitrogen are substantial threat to ecosystem sustainability.

Read more: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...