Eco-functionality of organic matter in soils

E Hoffland, TW Kuyper, RNJ Comans, RE Creamer - Plant and Soil, 2020 - Springer
Background Soil organic matter (SOM) supports multiple soil ecosystem functions,
underpinned by processes such as C sequestration, N mineralization, aggregation …

Machine learning and computational chemistry to improve biochar fertilizers: a review

AI Osman, Y Zhang, ZY Lai, AK Rashwan… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Traditional fertilizers are highly inefficient, with a major loss of nutrients and associated
pollution. Alternatively, biochar loaded with phosphorous is a sustainable fertilizer that …

The health of vineyard soils: Towards a sustainable viticulture

F Visconti, R López, MÁ Olego - Horticulturae, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soil health encompasses the effects the uppermost part of the land have on human
wellbeing in a broad sense, because soil is where most food ultimately comes from, and …

Advances in understanding the phosphate binding to soil constituents: A Computational Chemistry perspective

AA Ahmed, P Leinweber, O Kühn - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Phosphorus (P) is an indispensable element to all forms of life and its efficient use in
fertilizers is one of the conditions for food security. The efficiency of P fertilizers is affected by …

Assessment of pesticide inputs into surface waters by agricultural and urban sources-A case study in the Querne/Weida catchment, central Germany

N Tauchnitz, F Kurzius, H Rupp, G Schmidt… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pesticide inputs into surface waters may cause harmful effects on aquatic life communities
and substantially contribute to environmental pollution. The present study aimed at …

Glyphosate adsorption onto kaolinite and kaolinite-humic acid composites: experimental and molecular dynamics studies

F Guo, M Zhou, J Xu, JB Fein, Q Yu, Y Wang, Q Huang… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Glyphosate (PMG) has been the most widely used herbicide in the world, and its
environmental mobility and fate are mainly controlled by interactions with mineral surfaces …

Martini-Based Coarse-Grained Soil Organic Matter Model Derived from Atomistic Simulations

LF Dettmann, O Kühn, AA Ahmed - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The significance of soil organic matter (SOM) in environmental contexts, particularly its role
in pollutant adsorption, has prompted an increased utilization of molecular simulations to …

Effect of temperature, pH and total organic carbon variations on microbial turnover of 13C315N-glyphosate in agricultural soil

AM Muskus, M Krauss, A Miltner, U Hamer… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Glyphosate is the best-selling and the most-used broad-spectrum herbicide worldwide.
Microbial conversion of glyphosate to CO 2 and biogenic non-extractable residues (bioNER) …

A contribution of molecular modeling to supramolecular structures in soil organic matter#

MH Gerzabek, AJA Aquino, YIE Balboa… - Journal of Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Knowledge of the stabilizing mechanisms of soil organic matter (SOM) is
extremely important for numerous soil functions. For this, insight into the nature of organic …

[HTML][HTML] Glyphosate/AMPA adsorption on magnetite under different conditions: The effect of pH and electrolytes

N Kovács, G Maász, I Galambos… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
As a result of the frequent use, glyphosate (GLY) and its major metabolite,
aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), have emerged as ubiquitous environmental …