William R. Whalley

Best Publications

• Soil management in relation to sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services

  D S Powlson;P J Gregory;W R Whalley;J N Quinton

  746
  Citations

• How do roots penetrate strong soil

  L. J. Clark;W. R. Whalley;P. B. Barraclough

  415
  Citations

• Biological effects of soil compaction

  W.R. Whalley;E. Dumitru;A.R. Dexter

  388
  Citations

• Considerations on the use of time‐domain reflectometry (TDR) for measuring soil water content

  W. R. Whalley

  380
  Citations

• How do roots penetrate strong soil?

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  279
  Citations

• Physical effects of soil drying on roots and crop growth

  Andrew P. Whitmore;W. Richard Whalley

  270
  Citations

• Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion

  Bipin K. Pandey;Guoqiang Huang;Rahul Bhosale;Sjon Hartman;Sjon Hartman

  267
  Citations

• Applications of X‐ray computed tomography for examining biophysical interactions and structural development in soil systems: a review

  Jonathan R Helliwell;Craig J Sturrock;Kathryn M Grayling;Saoirse R Tracy

  255
  Citations

• Increased soil phosphorus availability induced by faba bean root exudation stimulates root growth and phosphorus uptake in neighbouring maize

  Deshan Zhang;Chaochun Zhang;Xiaoyan Tang;Haigang Li

  246
  Citations

• Soil engineering in vivo: harnessing natural biogeochemical systems for sustainable, multi-functional engineering solutions

  Jason T. DeJong;Jason T. DeJong;Kenichi Soga;Steven A. Banwart;W. Richard Whalley

  242
  Citations

• Structural differences between bulk and rhizosphere soil

  W. R. Whalley;B. Riseley;P. B. Leeds-Harrison;N. R. A. Bird

  241
  Citations

• Major crop species show differential balance between root morphological and physiological responses to variable phosphorus supply

  Yang Lyu;Hongliang Tang;Hongliang Tang;Haigang Li;Fusuo Zhang

  224
  Citations

• Natural capital and ecosystem services, developing an appropriate soils framework as a basis for valuation

  D.A. Robinson;N. Hockley;D.M. Cooper;B.A. Emmett

  221
  Citations

• Roots, water, and nutrient acquisition: let's get physical

  Nick Chapman;Anthony J. Miller;Anthony J. Miller;Keith Lindsey;W. Richard Whalley

  201
  Citations

• Calculation of the compression index and precompression stress from soil compression test data

  A.S. Gregory;W.R. Whalley;C.W. Watts;N.R.A. Bird

  193
  Citations

• How do roots elongate in a structured soil

  Kemo Jin;Kemo Jin;Jianbo Shen;Rhys W. Ashton;Ian C. Dodd

  188
  Citations

• Effects of ‘on-farm seed priming’ on consecutive daily sowing occasions on the emergence and growth of maize in semi-arid Zimbabwe

  F.S Murungu;C Chiduza;P Nyamugafata;L.J Clark

  181
  Citations

• Evidence from near-isogenic lines that root penetration increases with root diameter and bending stiffness in rice.

  Lawrence John Clark;Adam Huw Price;Katherine A. Steele;William Richard Whalley

  179
  Citations

• Effects of seed priming, aggregate size and soil matric potential on emergence of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and maize (Zea mays L.)

  F.S. Murungu;P. Nyamugafata;C. Chiduza;L.J. Clark

  176
  Citations

• The effect of soil strength on the yield of wheat

  W. Richard Whalley;Chris W. Watts;Andrew S. Gregory;Sacha J. Mooney

  172
  Citations

• Shaping an Optimal Soil by Root–Soil Interaction

  Kemo Jin;Philip J. White;William R. Whalley;Jianbo Shen

  165
  Citations

• Deep roots and soil structure

  W. Gao;Laura Hodgkinson;K. Jin;Chris W. Watts

  159
  Citations

• Use of effective stress to predict the penetrometer resistance of unsaturated agricultural soils

  W.R. Whalley;P.B. Leeds-Harrison;L.J. Clark;D.J.G. Gowing

  142
  Citations

• Prediction of the penetrometer resistance of soils with models with few parameters

  W.R. Whalley;J. To;B.D. Kay;A.P. Whitmore

  139
  Citations