A5053868468- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques
- Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Fungal Biology and Applications
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
The University of Western Australia
2014-2024
Government of Western Australia
2020-2024
Australian Research Council
2023
Soils are crucial in regulating ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycling, and supporting plant growth. To a large extent, these functions carried out by highly diverse dynamic soil microbiomes that turn governed numerous environmental factors including weathering profile vegetation. In this study, we investigate geophysical vegetation effects on the microbial communities of iron-rich lateritic soils weathered landscapes Western Australia (WA). The study site was hillslope southwestern...
Abstract Plastic film mulching can affect soil organic carbon (C) lability in semiarid regions. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi represent an important route for plant‐derived C into and be influenced by agricultural practices. Whether the changes of AM fungal community sequestration is a fundamental question environments. To this end, we conducted two field experiments investigating influence Funneliformis mosseae inoculation mycorrhizal‐suppression using benomyl application on maize...
Abstract Global food wastage equates to about 1.3 billion tons per year, which causes serious environmental impacts. The objective of this study was evaluate the influences addition digestate from waste in comparison a synthetic liquid urea ammonium nitrate solution on plant growth, rhizosphere bacterial community composition and diversity, hyphal abundance arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Plant soil samples were collected at 25, 50, 75 days after seedling emergence. Annual ryegrass growth...
The coordination/trade-off among below-ground strategies for phosphorus (P) acquisition, including root morphology, carboxylate exudation and colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), is not well understood. This the first study investigating relationships between nodulation, carboxylates an indigenous community of AMF under varying P levels source. Two chickpea genotypes with contrasting amounts rhizosheath were grown in pots at six (from 0 to 160 μg g-1 ) as KH2 PO4 (KP, highly...
The main aim of the blue-green city concept is reduction adverse impacts stormwater by recreating natural water cycle with aid green infrastructure in major metropolitan areas worldwide.
Microbial inoculants, including those formed from multiple species, may have dual functions as biostimulants and/or biocontrol agents, and claimed agricultural benefits are instrumental for regulatory categorisation. Biostimulants include commercial products containing substances or microorganisms that stimulate plant growth. Biostimulant microbes can be involved in a range of processes affect N P transformations soil thus influence nutrient availability, fertilisers microbial diversity...
Microalgae (MA) and purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) have the ability to remove recover nutrients from digestate (anaerobic digestion effluent) pre-settled pig manure that can be utilised as a bio-fertiliser. The objective of this study was compare effectiveness MA PPB bio-fertilisers soil conditioners in relation plant growth biological processes involved nitrogen (N) carbon (C) cycling. To end, glasshouse experiment conducted using grow common pasture ryegrass (Lolium rigidum Gaudin)...
Abstract 1. Global interest in building healthy soils combined with new DNA sequencing technologies has led to the generation of a vast amount soil microbial community (SMC) data. 2. SMC analysis is being adopted widely for monitoring ecological restoration trajectories. However, despite large and growing quantity data, it remains unclear how these data inform best guide practice. 3. Here, we examine assumptions around as tool guiding ecosystem evaluate effectiveness using species...
Abstract Southern highbush blueberry plants ( Vaccinium corymbosum hybrid) from a commercial farm were placed in quarantine glasshouses and either exposed to adults of the western golden‐haired blowfly Calliphora albifrontalis (Malloch) or no insects at all over 21‐week period. Laboratory reared C. regularly released into one house maintain population 1000–1500 flies. Flies could only obtain sugar plant flowers, there was sufficient water leachate fraction draining out each bagged plant....
Abstract Phosphorus (P) recycling from wastewater can reduce the reliance on primary source for P fertilisers―rock phosphate reserves. In light of this, we compared effects struvite (ST), a sparingly soluble product derived wastewater, and readily KH 2 PO 4 (KP) chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) wheat Triticum aestivum growth acquisition. Plants were grown in temperature-controlled glasshouse plastic pots containing soil mixture with low availability, ST or KP applied at five rates (7, 14, 28,...