Subject

Sustainable agriculture management practices, Nutrient cycling, Soil fertility, crop nutrition, micronutrient analysis

Education

Ph.D. Rothamsted Research & University of Bristol, Geology
M.Sc. National Taiwan University, Agricultural Chemistry
B.Sc. National Taiwan University, Agronomy

Expertise

Sustainable agriculture management practices, Nutrient cycling, Soil fertility, crop nutrition, micronutrient analysis

Publications

1. Kao, P.-T., McGrath, S., Buss, H. et al. The role of ruminant urine and faeces in the recycling of nutrients by forages. Sci Rep 14, 16007 (2024).
2. Kao, P.-T., Buss, H.L., McGrath, S.P., Darch, T., Warren, H. & Lee, M. R. The uptake of selenium by perennial ryegrass in soils of different organic matter contents receiving sheep excreta. Plant Soil 486, 639–659 (2023).
3. Kao, P.-T., Fleming, H., Buss, H. L., Warren, H., McGrath, S. P., Darch, T., & Lee, M. R. The impact of feeding supplemental minerals to sheep on the return of micronutrients to pasture via urine and faeces. Sci Rep 13, 2747 (2023).
4. Kao, P.-T., Fleming, H., Buss, H. L., Warren, H., McGrath, S. P., Darch, T., & Lee, M. R. (2021). 154 Impact of supplementation dose and form on selenium partitioning and composition in urine and faeces of sheep. Animal-science proceedings, 12(1), 124.
5. Kao, P.-T., Darch, T., McGrath, S. P., Kendall, N. R., Buss, H. L., Warren, H., & Lee, M. R. (2020). Factors influencing elemental micronutrient supply from pasture systems for grazing ruminants. Advances in Agronomy, 164, 161-229.

Conferences

1. Kao, P.-T., Buss, H.L., McGrath, S.P., Darch, T., Warren, H. & Lee, M. R. Key factors to micronutrient upcycling by grass in an arable/grassland soil applied with urine/faeces of sheep given organic/inorganic forms of mineral supplement. World Congress of Soil Science (2022)
2. Kao, P.-T., Fleming, H., Buss, H. L., Warren, H., McGrath, S. P., Darch, T., & Lee, M. R. A preliminary investigation to determine if selenium loss through exhalation in sheep supplemented with selenium yeast at NRC requirement could be quantified using a gas bag technique. British Society of Animal Science (2020)

3. Kao, P.-T., Fleming, H., Buss, H. L., Warren, H., McGrath, S. P., Darch, T., & Lee, M. R. A Assessing mineral provision from drinking water for nutrition studies: Supply of zinc from galvanized troughs. British Society of Animal Science (2020)

4. Kao, P.-T. & Wang, S.-L. Utilizing reservoir sediments amended with organic matter as an alternative tray nursery substrate for rice seedlings. International Conference of the Eastern and Southeast Asia Federation of Soil Science Societies (ESAFS) (2017)