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Mark W. Young
Researcher at James Hutton Institute
Publications - 37
Citations - 920
Mark W. Young is an academic researcher from James Hutton Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Arable land & Cropping system. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 34 publications receiving 822 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark W. Young include Seattle Children's Research Institute & Scottish Crop Research Institute.
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Responses of plants and invertebrate trophic groups to contrasting herbicide regimes in the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide–tolerant crops
Cathy Hawes,Alison J. Haughton,Juliet L. Osborne,David B. Roy,Suzanne J. Clark,Joe N. Perry,Peter Rothery,David A. Bohan,David R. Brooks,G. T. Champion,Alan M. Dewar,Matthew S. Heard,Ian P. Woiwod,R. E. Daniels,Mark W. Young,A. M. Parish,R. J. Scott,Les G. Firbank,G. R. Squire +18 more
TL;DR: The Farm Scale Evaluations have demonstrated over 3 years and throughout the UK that herbivores, detritivores and many of their predators and parasitoids in arable systems are sensitive to the changes in weed communities that result from the introduction of new herbicide regimes.
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Soil strength and macropore volume limit root elongation rates in many UK agricultural soils
Tracy A. Valentine,Paul D. Hallett,Kirsty Binnie,Mark W. Young,Geoffrey R. Squire,Cathy Hawes,A. Glyn Bengough,A. Glyn Bengough +7 more
TL;DR: Root elongation rate in the majority of field soils was slower than half of the unimpeded rate, which will decrease rooting volumes and limit crop growth in soils where nutrients and water are scarce.
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Arable plant communities as indicators of farming practice
TL;DR: In this article, the diversity and abundance of the within-field seedbank and emerged weed flora, were measured in over 100 fields from conventional, integrated and organic farms across the arable east of Scotland.
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A Comparative Nitrogen Balance and Productivity Analysis of Legume and Non-legume Supported Cropping Systems: The Potential Role of Biological Nitrogen Fixation.
Pietro P. M. Iannetta,Mark W. Young,Johann Bachinger,Göran Bergkvist,Jordi Doltra,Rafael J. López-Bellido,Michele Monti,V. A. Pappa,V. A. Pappa,Moritz Reckling,Cairistiona F.E. Topp,Robin L. Walker,Robert M. Rees,Christine A. Watson,Christine A. Watson,Euan K. James,Geoffrey R. Squire,Graham S. Begg +17 more
TL;DR: BNF through grain and forage legumes has the potential to generate major benefit in terms of reducing or dispensing with the need for mineral N without loss of total output.
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Status of feral oilseed rape in Europe: its minor role as a GM impurity and its potential as a reservoir of transgene persistence
Geoffrey R. Squire,Broder Breckling,Antje Dietz Pfeilstetter,Rikke Bagger Jørgensen,Jane Lecomte,Jane Lecomte,Jane Lecomte,Sandrine Pivard,Sandrine Pivard,Sandrine Pivard,Hauke Reuter,Mark W. Young +11 more
TL;DR: Feral oilseed rape is not a relevant source of macroscopic impurity at its present density in the landscape but provides opportunity for genetic recombination, stacking of transgenes and the evolution of genotypes that under strong selection pressure could increase and re-occupy fields to constitute an economic weed burden and impurity in future crops.