Richard Brackin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
The University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
My work focuses on soil microbiological processes in sugarcane farming systems, particularly centred around the nitrogen cycle. I am interested in alterations of soil biogeochemical cycles under different land uses, and using this information to devise more sustainable cropping systems. My research examines production rates and fluxes of soil nitrogen compounds, in context of their availability to plants. Sugarcane cropping systems in Australia have poor synchronisation of nitrogen application with crop demand: my current project is examining the capacity of legume intercrops to provide 'slow release' nitrogen across the sugarcane growing season
Research Interest
Plant and soil sciences
Publications
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Kit YY, Paul DG, Paungfoo-Lonhienne, Chanyarat, Weber, Lui, Brackin, Richard, Ragan, Mark A., Schmidt, Susanne and Hugenholtz, Philip (2017) Evolutionary conservation of a core root microbiome across plant phyla along a tropical soil chronosequence. Nature Communications.
