Journal article
Review on iron availability in soil: Interaction of Fe minerals, plants, and microbes
C Colombo, G Palumbo, JZ He, R Pinton, S Cesco
Journal of Soils and Sediments | Published : 2014
Abstract
Purpose: The rationale of this paper is to review the state of the art regarding the biotic and abiotic reactions that can influence Fe availability in soils. In soil, the management-induced change from oxic to anoxic environment results in temporal and spatial variations of redox reactions, which, in turn, affect the Fe dynamics and Fe mineral constituents. Measuring the Fe forms in organic complexes and the interaction between bacteria and Fe is a major challenge in getting a better quantitative understanding of the dynamics of Fe in complex soil ecosystems. Materials and methods: We review the existing literature on chemical and biochemical processes in soils related with the availability..
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Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Funding Acknowledgements
Colombo C. would like to thank the financial support from the CAS as Visiting Professor Programs 2011-2012 to the Research Centre for Eco-environmental Sciences of Beijing. This research was supported by grants from Italian MIUR (FIRB-Programma "Futuro in Ricerca" and PRIN), Free University of Bolzano (TN5056), and the Natural Science Foundation of China (51221892, 41090281). The authors would like to thank Dr. Rebeka Fijan and Dr. Tanja Mimmo (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) and Tom Thomas W. Crawford, Jr., Ph.D. (Director of Research Bio Huma Netics Inc.) for their critical revision of the manuscript.