SENSOILS: Sensing soil processes for improved crop nitrogen bioavailability
The recent development of transparent soils gives great scope to unravel the processes involved in the reactive transport of nutrients in soil and their interaction with the soil biota. Principles of optics, chemical engineering, the physics, chemistry, and biology of soils, and plant biology will be combined to image and characterise nitrogen movement in soil at the micro-scale. A new generation of transparent soil analogues makes it possible to measure the biological and chemical status of soils to characterise transport at the surface of soil particles and to elucidate the role of root?particle?particle contacts, exudation and microbial transformation on the bioavailability of nitrate and ammonium. Understanding of nutrient movements in soil will lead to substantial progress in the development of more efficient fertilisers. New model soil systems could be used to better understand the spread of soil-borne diseases, the bio-remediation of contaminated soils and the mechanisms underlying soil biodiversity and activity.
See also: https://smart-akis.com/SFCPPortal/#/app-h/technologies?techid=168
Smart-AKIS: European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) towards innovation-driven research
in Smart Farming Technology
Ongoing | 2016-2018
in Smart Farming Technology
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Greece