Advances in portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) for environmental, pedological, and agronomic applications

DC Weindorf, N Bakr, Y Zhu - Advances in agronomy, 2014 - Elsevier
Contemporary soil, agronomic, and environmental investigations require high quality data
for the development of sound management decisions. For years, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) …

Interaction of copper-based nanoparticles to soil, terrestrial, and aquatic systems: critical review of the state of the science and future perspectives

V Rajput, T Minkina, B Ahmed, S Sushkova… - … and Toxicology Volume …, 2020 - Springer
In the past two decades, increased production and usage of metallic nanoparticles (NPs)
have inevitably increased their discharge into the different compartments of the environment …

Characterizing soils via portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer: 4. Cation exchange capacity (CEC)

A Sharma, DC Weindorf, DD Wang, S Chakraborty - Geoderma, 2015 - Elsevier
Soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) is an important measure of soil fertility, owing to the
large number of plant essential nutrients which are taken up by plants as cations. However …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of different organic fertilizers on yield and soil and crop nutrient concentrations

CL Thomas, GE Acquah, AP Whitmore, SP McGrath… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
At present, organic fertilizers are not widely used in intensive arable agriculture, and not
much is known about their effects on crop nutrition. In a field experiment at Rothamsted, UK …

Elemental assessment of vegetation via portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) spectrometry

C McGladdery, DC Weindorf, S Chakraborty… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Elemental concentrations in vegetation are of critical importance, whether establishing plant
essential element concentrations (toxicity vs. deficiency) or investigating deleterious …

Recent developments in fast spectroscopy for plant mineral analysis

M van Maarschalkerweerd, S Husted - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Ideal fertilizer management to optimize plant productivity and quality is more relevant than
ever, as global food demands increase along with the rapidly growing world population. At …