Irrigation alters biogeochemical processes to increase both inorganic and organic carbon in arid-calcic cropland soils

KR Ball, AA Malik, C Muscarella… - Soil Biology and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Irrigation in arid croplands is necessary to sustain crop growth, but with increasing water
scarcity and population growth in drylands, irrigation systems may need to shift from flooding …

Uncovering the dynamics of urease and carbonic anhydrase genes in ureolysis, carbon dioxide hydration, and calcium carbonate precipitation

A Clarà Saracho, EJ Marek - Environmental Science & …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
The hydration of CO2 suffers from kinetic inefficiencies that make its natural trap**
impractically sluggish. However, CO2-fixing carbonic anhydrases (CAs) remarkably …