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Deep soil as an input-constrained output-controlled reactor for climate-smart agriculture

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Agriculture faces pressures from both growing demands for food production under a changing climate and the need to mitigate climate change. Deep soil management is key to achieving a solution.

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Fig. 1: Conceptual framework of deep soil C sources, stabilization, accrual and management in an agroecosystem.

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Y.W. and H.Z. acknowledge financial support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFD1500500, 2022YFD1901100), the 2115 Talent Development Program of China Agricultural University. H.Z. would also like to thank the Tang Cornell-China Scholars Program for their support of the collaboration.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Maize Bio-breeding, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

    Yuan Wen & Huadong Zang

  2. Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Yuan Wen, Yiqi Luo, Huadong Zang & Johannes Lehmann

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Wen, Y., Luo, Y., Zang, H. et al. Deep soil as an input-constrained output-controlled reactor for climate-smart agriculture. Nat Food 6, 913–915 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01233-9

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