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Plant Science and Agronomy
UK
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
128
Citations
66018
World Ranking
46
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Ecosystem

Davey L. Jones focuses on Agronomy, Soil water, Soil organic matter, Environmental chemistry and Biochar. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Nutrient cycle, Soil carbon, Soil quality and Leaching. His research integrates issues of Organic acid and Nutrient in his study of Soil water.

His Soil organic matter study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Biomass, Organic matter and Nitrogen cycle. His Environmental chemistry research integrates issues from Soil classification, Rhizosphere, Biochemistry and Biodegradation. His study on Slash-and-char is often connected to Amendment as part of broader study in Biochar.

His most cited work include:

  • Carbon flow in the rhizosphere: carbon trading at the soil–root interface (812 citations)
  • The role of the natural environment in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria (602 citations)
  • Biochar-mediated changes in soil quality and plant growth in a three year field trial (551 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Soil water, Agronomy, Environmental chemistry, Soil organic matter and Ecosystem. The various areas that he examines in his Soil water study include Peat, Organic matter, Rhizosphere and Nitrogen cycle. His work investigates the relationship between Agronomy and topics such as Nutrient that intersect with problems in Phosphorus.

His work in Environmental chemistry addresses subjects such as Amino acid, which are connected to disciplines such as Microorganism. The study incorporates disciplines such as Soil biology, Soil fertility and Soil respiration in addition to Soil organic matter. His work deals with themes such as Vegetation and Cycling, which intersect with Ecosystem.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Soil water (40.18%)
  • Agronomy (35.05%)
  • Environmental chemistry (35.05%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Soil water (40.18%)
  • Environmental chemistry (35.05%)
  • Agronomy (35.05%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Soil water, Environmental chemistry, Agronomy, Microbial population biology and Microorganism. His Soil water study is related to the wider topic of Ecology. The concepts of his Environmental chemistry study are interwoven with issues in Nutrient cycle, Temperate climate, Nitrogen cycle and Mineralization.

His Agronomy study incorporates themes from Soil fertility, Histosol, Ecosystem and Leaching. In Microbial population biology, he works on issues like Soil carbon, which are connected to Soil organic matter. His Microorganism study also includes fields such as

  • Biomass and Amino acid most often made with reference to Sulfur,
  • Cysteine most often made with reference to Food science,
  • Plant nutrition and related Plant physiology and Biochemistry,
  • Animal science that intertwine with fields like Chemical composition, Grazing, Urine and Ruminant.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19. (91 citations)
  • Behavior of microplastics and plastic film residues in the soil environment: A critical review (81 citations)
  • Making waves: Wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 - approaches and challenges for surveillance and prediction. (45 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Ecosystem

His scientific interests lie mostly in Soil water, Microbial population biology, Environmental chemistry, Agronomy and Microorganism. His Soil water research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Phosphate and Phosphorus deficiency. His research in Microbial population biology intersects with topics in Soil carbon, Soil organic matter, Microbial DNA, Biogeochemical cycle and Moisture stress.

His studies in Soil carbon integrate themes in fields like Food science, Soil fertility, Mineralization, Nitrogen cycle and Manure. The Environmental chemistry study combines topics in areas such as Nitrification, Soil structure, Metabolite, Water content and Nitrate. His work in the fields of Agronomy, such as Growing season, intersects with other areas such as Vegetation.

Best Publications

  • Organic acids in the rhizosphere: a critical review

    David L. Jones

  • Optimisation of the anaerobic digestion of agricultural resources.

    Alastair J. Ward;Phil J. Hobbs;Peter J. Holliman;David L. Jones

  • Carbon flow in the rhizosphere: carbon trading at the soil–root interface

    D. L. Jones;Christophe Nguyen;R. D. Finlay

  • Experimental evaluation of methods to quantify dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in soil

    D.L. Jones;V.B. Willett

  • Plant and mycorrhizal regulation of rhizodeposition

    David L. Jones;Angela Hodge;Yakov Kuzyakov

  • Biochar-mediated changes in soil quality and plant growth in a three year field trial

    D. L. Jones;Johannes Rousk;G. Edwards-Jones;T. H. DeLuca

  • Humic and fulvic acids as biostimulants in horticulture

    Luciano P. Canellas;Luciano P. Canellas;Fábio L. Olivares;Natália O. Aguiar;Davey L. Jones

  • PH regulation of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in two agricultural soils

    Sarah J. Kemmitt;Sarah J. Kemmitt;David Wright;Keith W.T. Goulding;David L. Jones

  • Behavior of microplastics and plastic film residues in the soil environment: A critical review

    Ruimin Qi;Davey L. Jones;Zhen Li;Qin Liu

  • Biochar effects on soil nutrient transformations

    Thomas H. DeLuca;Michael J. Gundale;M. Derek MacKenzie;Davey L. Jones

  • Organic acid behavior in soils - Misconceptions and knowledge gaps

    D.L. Jones;P.G. Dennis;A.G. Owen;P.A.W. van Hees

  • Dissolved organic nitrogen uptake by plants—an important N uptake pathway?

    David L. Jones;John R. Healey;Victoria B. Willett;John F. Farrar

  • The carbon we do not see : The impact of low molecular weight compounds on carbon dynamics and respiration in forest soils - A review

    Patrick A.W. van Hees;David L. Jones;Roger Finlay;Douglas L. Godbold

  • Microbes as engines of ecosystem function: When does community structure enhance predictions of ecosystem processes?

    Emily B. Graham;Emily B. Graham;Joseph E. Knelman;Joseph E. Knelman;Andreas Schindlbacher;Steven Siciliano

  • Short-term biochar-induced increase in soil CO2 release is both biotically and abiotically mediated

    D.L. Jones;Daniel Murphy;M. Khalid;W. Ahmad

  • Decreased soil microbial biomass and nitrogen mineralisation with Eucalyptus biochar addition to a coarse textured soil

    D.N. Dempster;Deirdre Gleeson;Zakaria Solaiman;D.L. Jones

  • Through form to function: root hair development and nutrient uptake

    Simon Gilroy;David L Jones

  • Life in the ‘charosphere’ - Does biochar in agricultural soil provide a significant habitat for microorganisms?

    Richard S. Quilliam;Helen C. Glanville;Stephen C. Wade;Davey L. Jones

  • HOW ROOTS CONTROL THE FLUX OF CARBON TO THE RHIZOSPHERE

    John Farrar;Martha Hawes;Davey Jones;Steven Lindow

  • Role of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in soil N cycling in grassland soils

    David L. Jones;David Shannon;Daniel V. Murphy;John Farrar

  • The microplastisphere: biodegradable microplastics addition alters soil microbial community structure and function

    Jie Zhou;Jie Zhou;Heng Gui;Callum C. Banfield;Yuan Wen

  • Competition for amino acids between wheat roots and rhizosphere microorganisms and the role of amino acids in plant N acquisition

    A.G Owen;D.L Jones

  • Influence of sorption on the biological utilization of two simple carbon substrates

    D.L. Jones;A.C. Edwards

  • Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming

    Jun Cui;Zhenke Zhu;Xingliang Xu;Shoulong Liu

  • Struvite: a slow-release fertiliser for sustainable phosphorus management?

    Peter J. Talboys;James Heppell;Tiina Roose;John R. Healey

  • Biochar mediated alterations in herbicide breakdown and leaching in soil

    D.L. Jones;G. Edwards-Jones;Daniel Murphy

  • The control of carbon acquisition by roots

    J. F. Farrar;D. L. Jones

  • Microplastics in the agroecosystem: Are they an emerging threat to the plant-soil system?

    Huadong Zang;Huadong Zang;Jie Zhou;Miles R. Marshall;David R. Chadwick;David R. Chadwick

  • Nutrient dynamics, microbial growth and weed emergence in biochar amended soil are influenced by time since application and reapplication rate

    Richard S. Quilliam;Richard S. Quilliam;Karina A. Marsden;Christoph Gertler;Johannes Rousk;Johannes Rousk

  • Feed the crop not the soil: rethinking phosphorus management in the food chain.

    Paul J A Withers;Roger Sylvester-Bradley;Davey L Jones;John R Healey

  • Spatial coordination of aluminium uptake, production of reactive oxygen species, callose production and wall rigidification in maize roots.

    D. L. Jones;E. B. Blancaflor;L. V. Kochian;S. Gilroy

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul W. Hill
Paul W. Hill Bangor University
David R. Chadwick
David R. Chadwick Bangor University
John R. Healey
John R. Healey Bangor University
Mark Farrell
Mark Farrell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Daniel V. Murphy
Daniel V. Murphy Murdoch University
Johannes Rousk
Johannes Rousk Lund University
Thomas H. DeLuca
Thomas H. DeLuca Oregon State University
Shelagh K. Malham
Shelagh K. Malham Bangor University
Richard S. Quilliam
Richard S. Quilliam University of Stirling
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen

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