Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils

ES Button, J Pett-Ridge, DV Murphy, Y Kuzyakov… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their substantial volume, subsoils contain more of the total soil carbon (C) pool than
topsoils. Much of this C is thousands of years old, suggesting that subsoils offer …

Restoring soil fertility on degraded lands to meet food, fuel, and climate security needs via perennialization

S Mosier, SC Córdova, GP Robertson - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A continuously growing pressure to increase food, fiber, and fuel production to meet
worldwide demand and achieve zero hunger has put severe pressure on soil resources …

Soil organic carbon stocks potentially at risk of decline with organic farming expansion

U Gaudaré, M Kuhnert, P Smith, M Martin… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Organic farming is often considered a strategy that increases croplands' soil organic carbon
(SOC) stock. However, organic farms currently occupy only a small fraction of cropland, and …

Restoring particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon through regenerative agriculture

AM Prairie, AE King, MF Cotrufo - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Sustainability of agricultural production and mitigation of global warming rely on the
regeneration of soil organic carbon (SOC), in particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral …

[HTML][HTML] Natural and managed soil structure: On the fragile scaffolding for soil functioning

D Or, T Keller, WH Schlesinger - Soil and Tillage Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil structure in natural systems is a product of complex interactions between biological
activity, climate and soil minerals that promote aggregation and accumulation of biopores. In …

Management and utilization of plant genetic resources for a sustainable agriculture

R Pathirana, F Carimi - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite the dramatic increase in food production thanks to the Green Revolution, hunger is
increasing among human populations around the world, affecting one in nine people. The …

Biorefinery of green biomass─ how to extract and evaluate high quality leaf protein for food?

AH Møller, M Hammershøj… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
There is a growing need for protein for both feed and food in order to meet future demands. It
is imperative to explore and utilize novel protein sources such as protein from leafy plant …

Plant litter traits control microbial decomposition and drive soil carbon stabilization

JR Ridgeway, EM Morrissey, ER Brzostek - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
a bstract Efforts to manage soils for carbon (C) sequestration remain limited by our
understanding of how differences in plant traits and microbial traits mechanistically drive soil …

Patterns and driving factors of biomass carbon and soil organic carbon stock in the Indian Himalayan region

J Ahirwal, A Nath, B Brahma, S Deb, UK Sahoo… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tree-based ecosystems are critical to climate change mitigation. The study analysed carbon
(C) stock patterns and examined the importance of environmental variables in predicting …

[HTML][HTML] Phyloecology of nitrate ammonifiers and their importance relative to denitrifiers in global terrestrial biomes

A Saghaï, G Pold, CM Jones, S Hallin - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Nitrate ammonification is important for soil nitrogen retention. However, the ecology of
ammonifiers and their prevalence compared with denitrifiers, being competitors for nitrate …