Agroecosystems Lab

Research Projects

• Phosphorus fertility in rice systems
• Fertilizer N uptake and efficiency of preplant surface N and injected aqua-N
• Landscape-scale Control of Spatiotemporal Variability of Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in a Tilled and Conservation Tilled Agroecosystems
• Managing nitrogen in alternative rice establishment and weed control systems
• Linking changes in early season water management to changes in nitrogen dynamics in California rice systems
• Soil fertility and fertilizer use in rice across the Sacramento Valley
• Determining starter fertilizer N uptake and its influence on total N uptake under differing N and straw management practices
• Root: shoot ratios in cultivated and wild Medicago truncatula cultivars
• The impact of elevated CO₂ on rhizodeposition and N cycling under wheat and corn
• Development and Implementation of Ricefield Management Practices to Improve Water Quality
• Fertilizer phosphorus by weed interactions in rice systems
• Sustainable, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective production of biomass for energy efficient biofuels in California
• Crop water use in Drill Seeded and Water seeded rice systems in California
• Greenhouse gas emissions from rice systems
• Seed germination ecophysiology of C. difformis (smallflower umbrella sedge): seeking improvements in weed management by the adoption of alternative rice establishment systems