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Present	Associate Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Agronomy
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Articles (49)

A Field‐Deployable, Wearable Leaf Sensor for Continuous Monitoring of ...

Advanced Materials Technologies (2021)

Shihao Yin, Hussam Ibrahim, Patrick S. Schnable, Michael J. Castellano, et al.

This work presents a wearable sensor for real‐time on‐leaf monitoring of relative humidity (RH), temperature, and vapor‐pressure deficit (VPD) of ...

Continuous in situ soil nitrate sensors: The importance of high ...

Soil Science Society of America Journal (2021)

Yunjiao Zhu, Yuncong Chen, Md. Azahar Ali, Liang Dong, et al.

Soil NO3– affects microbial processes, plant productivity, and environmental N losses. However, the ability to measure soil NO3– is limited ...

Lengthening of maize maturity time is not a widespread climate ...

Global Change Biology (2021)

Lori J. Abendroth, Fernando E. Miguez, Michael J. Castellano, Paul R. Carter, et al.

Increasing temperatures in the US Midwest are projected to reduce maize yields because warmer temperatures hasten reproductive development and, as ...

Combination of biological and chemical soil tests best predict maize ...

Agronomy Journal (2020)

Marshall D. McDaniel, D. T. Walters, L. G. Bundy, X. Li, et al.

Soil tests can help optimize nitrogen (N) fertilizer rates, thereby improving farmer profitability and environmental performance. In US Midwest maize ...

Predicting crop yields and soil‐plant nitrogen dynamics in the ...

Crop Science (2020)

Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Michael J. Castellano, Mark A. Licht, Virginia Nichols, et al.

We used the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) to predict and explain maize and soybean yields, phenology, and soil water ...

Root to shoot and carbon to nitrogen ratios of maize ...

European Journal of Agronomy (2020)

Raziel A. Ordonez, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Rafael Martinez-Feria, Jerry L. Hatfield, et al.

Root traits are important to crop functioning, yet there is little information about how root traits vary with shoot traits. ...

Whole-profile soil organic matter content, composition, and stability under cropping ...

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (2020)

Hanna J. Poffenbarger, Daniel C. Olk, Cynthia Cambardella, Jordan Kersey, et al.

Subsoils have been identified as a potential carbon sink because they typically have low soil organic carbon (SOC) concentrations and ...

Sustainable intensification of agricultural drainage

Nature Sustainability (2019)

Michael J. Castellano, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Matthew J. Helmers, Hanna J. Poffenbarger, et al.

Artificial drainage is among the most widespread land improvements for agriculture. Drainage benefits crop production, but also promotes nutrient losses ...

Continuous Monitoring of Soil Nitrate Using a Miniature Sensor with ...

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2019)

Md. Azahar Ali, Xinran Wang, Yuncong Chen, Yueyi Jiao, et al.

There is an unmet need for improved fertilizer management in agriculture. Continuous monitoring of soil nitrate would address this need. ...

Enhancing APSIM to simulate excessive moisture effects on root growth

Field Crops Research (2019)

Elnaz Ebrahimi-Mollabashi, Neil I. Huth, Dean P. Holzwoth, Raziel A. Ordonez, et al.

Shallow water table (WT) influences crop growth and production in many major agricultural regions across the globe. We enhanced the ...

Nitrogen Fertilizer Suppresses Mineralization of Soil Organic Matter in Maize ...

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2019)

Navreet K. Mahal, William R. Osterholz, Fernando E. Miguez, Hanna J. Poffenbarger, et al.

The possibility that N fertilizer increases soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization and, as a result, reduces SOM stocks has led ...

Soil respiration components and their temperature sensitivity under chemical fertilizer ...

JGR Biogeosciences (2019)

Zengming Chen, Yehong Xu, Michael J. Castellano, Sebastien Fontaine, et al.

Understanding autotrophic (Ra) and heterotrophic (Rh) components of soil respiration (Rs) and their temperature sensitivity (Q10) is critical for predicting ...

Climate Warming Trends in the U.S. Midwest Using Four ...

Agronomy Journal (2019)

Lori J. Abendroth, Fernando E. Miguez, Michael J. Castellano and Jerry L. Hatfield

Thermal time (TT) is an agro-climate index widely established and used in predicting plant development based on temperature. This index ...

Maize root distributions strongly associated with water tables in Iowa ...

Plant and Soil (2019)

Virginia A. Nichols, Raziel A. Ordonez, Emily E. Wright, Michael J. Castellano, et al.

Soil Type, Topography, and Land Use Interact to Control the ...

Chun Wang, Xiaoming Lai, Qing Zhu, Michael J. Castellano, et al.

The effects of soil and topography on the responses of soil respiration (Rs) to climatic variables must be investigated in ...

Physicochemical Organic Matter Stabilization across a Restored Grassland Chronosequence

Soil Science Society of America Journal (2018)

Shane M. Bugeja and Michael J. Castellano

In reconstructed grasslands, soil organic matter (SOM) is the largest CO2 and reactive N sink but SOM gains after reconstruction ...

Coupling soil water processes and nitrogen cycle across spatial scales ...

Earth-Science Reviews (2018)

Qing Zhu, Michael J. Castellano and Guishan Yang

Interactions among soil water processes and the nitrogen (N) cycle govern biological productivity and environmental outcomes in the earth’s critical ...

Legacy effects of long-term nitrogen fertilizer application on the fate ...

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2018)

Hanna J. Poffenbarger, John E. Sawyer, Daniel W. Barker, Daniel C. Olk, et al.

Nitrogen fertilizer management can impact soil organic C (SOC) stocks in cereal-based cropping systems by regulating crop residue inputs and ...

Conservation Agriculture Practices Increase Potentially Mineralizable Nitrogen: A Meta-Analysis

Soil Science Society of America Journal (2018)

Navreet K. Mahal, Michael J. Castellano and Fernando E. Miguez

Potentially mineralizable nitrogen (PMN) is considered an important indicator of soil health. Cropping systems management can affect PMN. However, the ...

A solution for sampling position errors in maize and soybean ...

European Journal of Agronomy (2018)

Raziel A. Ordonez, Michael J. Castellano, Jerry L. Hatfield, Mark A. Licht, et al.

Root mass and length attributes are difficult to obtain in the field and currently there is uniformity among literature studies ...

A Systems Modeling Approach to Forecast Corn Economic Optimum Nitrogen ...

Frontiers in Plant Science (2018)

Laila A. Puntel, John E. Sawyer, Daniel W. Barker, Peter J. Thorburn, et al.

Historically crop models have been used to evaluate crop yield responses to nitrogen (N) rates after harvest when it is ...

Extreme weather‐year sequences have nonadditive effects on environmental nitrogen ...

Global Change Biology (2018)

Javed Iqbal, Magdalena Necpalova, Sotirios Archontoulis, Robert P. Anex, et al.

The frequency and intensity of extreme weather years, characterized by abnormal precipitation and temperature, are increasing. In isolation, these years ...

Maize and soybean root front velocity and maximum depth in ...

Field Crops Research (2018)

Raziel A. Ordonez, Michael J. Castellano, Jerry L. Hatfield, Matthew J. Helmers, et al.

Quantitative measurements of root traits can improve our understanding of how crops respond to soil and weather conditions, but such ...

Plant litter quality affects the accumulation rate, composition, and stability ...

Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2018)

S. Carolina Cordova, Dan C. Olk, Ranae N. Dietzel, Kevin E. Mueller, et al.

Mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) is a relatively large and stable fraction of soil organic matter (SOM). Plant litters with high ...

Can mineralization of soil organic nitrogen meet maize nitrogen demand?

Plant and Soil (2017)

William R. Osterholz, Oshri Rinot, Matt Liebman and Michael J. Castellano

Aims High-yielding maize-based crop systems require maize to take up large quantities of nitrogen over short periods of time. Nitrogen ...