Digging deeper for agricultural resources, the value of deep rooting

K Thorup-Kristensen, N Halberg, M Nicolaisen… - Trends in Plant …, 2020 - cell.com
In the quest for sustainable intensification of crop production, we discuss the option of
extending the root depth of crops to increase the volume of soil exploited by their root …

Tamm Review: Deep fine roots in forest ecosystems: Why dig deeper?

A Germon, JP Laclau, A Robin, C Jourdan - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
While the number of studies dealing with fine root dynamics in deep soils layers (depth> 1
m) has increased sharply recently, the phenology, the morphology, the anatomy and the role …

[PDF][PDF] Considering soil potassium pools with dissimilar plant availability

MJ Bell, MD Ransom, ML Thompson… - … for agricultural crops, 2021 - library.oapen.org
Soil potassium (K) has traditionally been portrayed as residing in four functional pools:
solution K, exchangeable K, interlayer (sometimes referred to as “fixed” or …

Fertilization increases the functional specialization of fine roots in deep soil layers for young Eucalyptus grandis trees

B Bordron, A Robin, IR Oliveira, J Guillemot… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Functional specialization of fine roots was found for Eucalyptus grandis trees at harvesting
age (6 years) on tropical soils. Aiming to elucidate whether functional specialization is a …

Potassium limitation of wood productivity: A review of elementary processes and ways forward to modelling illustrated by Eucalyptus plantations

I Cornut, G Le Maire, JP Laclau, J Guillemot… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Potassium (K) is essential for a wide range of physiological functions in plants, and a limiting
element for wood productivity in numerous forest ecosystems. However, the contribution of …

Potassium fertilization increases hydraulic redistribution and water use efficiency for stemwood production in Eucalyptus grandis plantations

V Asensio, JC Domec, Y Nouvellon, JP Laclau… - Environmental and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of droughts in most tropical regions in
the coming decades. A passive phenomenon called hydraulic redistribution (HR) allows …

Consequences of mixing Acacia mangium and Eucalyptus grandis trees on soil exploration by fine-roots down to a depth of 17 m

A Germon, IA Guerrini, B Bordron, JP Bouillet… - Plant and Soil, 2018 - Springer
Background and aims Fine-root functioning is a major driver of plant growth and strongly
influences the global carbon cycle. While fine-root over-yielding has been shown in the …

Conventional analysis methods underestimate the plant-available pools of calcium, magnesium and potassium in forest soils

J Bel, A Legout, L Saint-André, SJ Hall, S Löfgren… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The plant-available pools of calcium, magnesium and potassium are assumed to be stored
in the soil as exchangeable cations adsorbed on the cation exchange complex. In numerous …

Soil nutrient stocks are maintained over multiple rotations in Brazilian Eucalyptus plantations

DE McMahon, L Vergütz, SV Valadares… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Intensive management in tropical plantation forestry has increased global wood production
per unit of time and land. Eucalyptus trees in southeastern Brazil grow exceptionally fast …

Phosphorus pool responses under different P inorganic fertilizers for a eucalyptus plantation in a loamy Oxisol

EC Foltran, JHT Rocha, JH Bazani… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Phosphate fertilizers play an important role in plant nutrition. Different P fertilizer sources
such as high-solubility (simple superphosphate, SSP), low-solubility (rock phosphate, RP) …