New press releases about Jörg's paper

2019-02-01

Agricultural yields around the world can be more sustainable by using silicon to mobilize soil phosphorus, making it available for plants. Phosphorus-based fertilizers, which are environmentally damaging and a limited global resource, could conceivably become redundant for some years at a time. This is what researchers at the Universities of Bayreuth and Copenhagen have discovered investigating soils in the Arctic. They detail their results, which in fact promise to make an important contribution to food security also in tropical and subtropical developing countries, in the journal Scientific Reports.

Publication:

J. Schaller, S. Faucherre, H. Joss, M. Obst, M. Goeckede, B. Planer-Friedrich, S. Peiffer, B. Gilfedder, and B. Elberling: Silicon increases the phosphorus availability of Arctic soils, Scientific Reports (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37104-6