Towards an improved representation of the relationship between root traits and nitrogen losses in process-based models

Huan Liu, Brian B. Grant, Ward N. Smith, Cheryl H. Porter, Davide Cammarano, Iris Vogeler, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Johannes W.M. Pullens, Jørgen E. Olesen, Marco Bindi, Mikhail A. Semenov, Per Abrahamsen, Reimund P. Rötter, Uttam Kumar and Diego Abalos

Agricultural Systems, 2025, vol. 228, issue C

Abstract: Nitrogen (N) application to crops is crucial to feed an increasing world population. Yet, much of this N is not taken up by crops, initiating a cascade of N losses with dire environmental and economic consequences. There is, therefore, a need to develop crops with traits that make them use N more efficiently, thereby reducing N losses. Process-based models have been used to design in-silico crops with desirable traits to maximize yield and increase climate resiliency, but few have been used with the perspective of reducing N losses.

Keywords: Root characteristics; N2O emissions; Nitrate leaching; Nitrogen pollution; Crop ideotype (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104400

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