Prof. Liz Baggs
Deputy Director of the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, and Chair of Food and Environmental Security
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 9396
- Email: liz.baggs@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
Easter Bush Campus - City
- Midlothian
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Liz Baggs is Professor of Food and Environmental Security. She joined the University of Edinburgh in 2017, is Deputy Director of the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. She is a soil biogeochemist, and develops and applies stable isotope approaches to investigate plant-soil-microbe interactions and to distinguish between different microbial processes, particularly in relation to greenhouse gas production in soils and soil fertility. She has been in continuous receipt of funding from NERC or BBSRC since 2000 for her research in temperate and tropical systems and has supervised over 30 PhD students.
Liz has held a variety of strategic leadership roles, including several panel and board memberships with the BBSRC and NERC. She is currently Deputy Chair of BBSRC Agriculture and Food Security Strategy Advisory Panel, and on NERC Training Advisory Board. She has also recently been President of the British Society of Soil Science, and was Head of School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.
Research Projects
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
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Exploiting crop genotype-specific root-soil interactions to enhance agronomic efficiency
(8 pages)
In:
Frontiers in Soil Science, vol. 3, pp. 1-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoil.2023.1125604
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Soil pH moderates the resistance and resilience of C and N cycling to transient and persistent stress
(9 pages)
In:
Applied Soil Ecology, vol. 182, pp. 1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2022.104690
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Letter (Published) -
Defining composition and function of the rhizosphere microbiota of barley genotypes exposed to growth-limiting nitrogen supplies: barley microbiota and soil nitrogen
In:
mSystems, vol. 7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00934-22
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Intensive grassland management disrupts below ground multitrophic resource transfers in response to drought
In:
Nature Communications, vol. 13, pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34449-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Sources of nitrous oxide and fate of mineral nitrogen in sub-Arctic permafrost peat soils
In:
Biogeosciences, vol. 19, pp. 2683-2698
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2683-2022
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Toward greater sustainability: How investing in soil health may enhance maize productivity in Southern Africa
In:
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170521000442
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Do soil depth and plant community composition interact to modify the resistance and resilience of grassland ecosystem functioning to drought?
In:
Ecology and Evolution, vol. 11, pp. 11960-11973
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7963
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Identification of barley genetic regions influencing plant-microbe interactions and carbon cycling in soil
(17 pages)
In:
Plant and Soil, vol. 468, pp. 165 - 182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05113-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Evidence of a plant genetic basis for maize roots impacting soil organic matter mineralization
(4 pages)
In:
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 161, pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108402
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Genotypic variation in maize (Zea mays) influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification
In:
New Phytologist
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17537
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)