Professor Olena Vatamaniuk and colleagues have discovered that a transporter protein is involved in iron as well as cadmium partitioning. The work, which is reported in a recent article in Plant Cell, is a multidisciplinary collaboration including current PhD student Sheena Gayomba, as well as several other current and former students, and colleagues at the…Continue Reading Findings may advance iron-rich, cadmium-free crops
Custom-built, rather than all-purpose biochars are needed
Cornell Professor Johannes Lehmann of the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, and his co-authors at the University of Zurich, suggest in a recent issue of Nature Geoscience that “Rather than thinking of biochar as a one-size-fits-all soil enhancer, we need to focus on developing tailor-made biochar systems for individual applications that take into account…Continue Reading Custom-built, rather than all-purpose biochars are needed