INPLAMINT Project

Excessive fertilizer use in agriculture leads to nutrient imbalances, which are the cause of nutrient losses leading to surface and groundwater pollution as well as increased greenhouse gas emissions. A sustainable agriculture has to find ways to minimize this nutrient inefficiency, while maintaining or even increasing crop productivity and quality.

Clayton et al. (2021) DOI: 10.1007/s00374-020-01532-2

Publications

Our motivation is the development of novel plant cultivation strategies directed towards “engineering” the complex nutrient cycling interactions between plants and soil microorganisms, combined with improved timing of fertilizer and soil amendment applications.