Research Areas:

Soil-plant relations, and processes in soils that affect root growth; tillage, land drainage, nitrate leaching, nutrient balances, and land management for improved surface and ground water quality.

Expertises:

Soil-plant-atmosphere continuum; soil and organic residue management; nutrient management; contaminant transport processes.

Affiliations:

• Visiting Professor, Scottish Agricultural College
• American Society of Soil Science
• British Society of Soil Science

Current Research Projects:

• Communications in the mycorrhizal and rhizobial colonization of roots
• Prediction of risks to water resources associated with on-farm sources of microbial pathogens

Selected Bibliographic Highlights From the Last Five Years:

Ehlers, W. & M.J. Goss. 2003. Water Dynamics in Plant Production. CABI Publishing, Wallinford, England. pp 304.

Goss, M.J. & B.D. Kay.2005. Soil Aggregation pp 163-180. Chapter 9 in: S.F. Wright and R.W. Zobel (Eds.) Roots and Soil Management: Interactions between Root and the Soil. Agronomy Monograph No 48. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA, Madison, WI. USA.

Goss, M.J, K.S. Rollins, K. McEwan, J. R. Shaw & H. Lammers-Helps. 2002. Manure Management Regulations and Practices. Walkerton Inquiry Commissioned Paper 6. Toronto: Ministry of the Attorney General.

Randall, G.W., & M.J. Goss. 2001. Nitrate losses to surface water through subsurface, tile drainage. pp.95-122. In R.F. Follett and J.R. Hatfield (Eds.) Nitrogen in the environment: sources, problems, and management. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands.

Antunes, P.M., I. Rajcan & M.J. Goss. 2006. Specific flavonoids as interconnecting signals in the tripartite symbiosis formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Bradyrhizobium japonicum (Kirchner) Jordan and soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38, 533-543.

Cordovil, C.M. D. S., J. Coutinho, M. Goss & F. Cabral. 2005. Potentially mineralizable nitrogen from organic materials applied to a sandy soil: fitting the one-pool exponential model . Soil Use and Management 21, 65-72.

Unc, A. & M.J. Goss. 2004. Transport of bacteria from manure, and protection of water resources. Applied Soil Ecology 25,1-18.

Pestana, M., A. De Varennes, M.J. Goss, J. Abadía & E.A. Faria. 2004. Floral analysis as a tool to diagnose iron chlorosis in orange trees. Plant and Soil 259, 287-295.

Goss, M.J. & C.A. Watson. 2003. The importance of root dynamics in cropping systems research. Journal of Crop Production 8, 127-156.

Goss, M.J., A. De Varennes, P.S. Smith & J.A. Ferguson. 2002. N2 fixation by soybeans grown with different levels of mineral nitrogen, and the fertilizer replacement value for a following crop. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 82, 139-145.