Gerson Laerson Drescher Data-verified
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Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences
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Gerson Laerson Drescher's research focuses on developing soil-test-based fertilizer recommendations and nutrient management strategies for agricultural crops including rice, soybean, corn, cotton, and forages. His work aims to enhance crop production while promoting environmental sustainability. Dr. Drescher investigates various laboratory methods for plant and soil analysis, including the correlation and calibration of nutrient availability indexes. His research interests also encompass nutrient cycling, the use of cover crops, carbon sequestration, and overall soil health. He has experience with stable isotope analysis (15N), organic waste management, and evaluating nutrient losses and greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in flooded rice systems.
His scholarly output includes 61 publications, with an h-index of 14 and 590 total citations. Dr. Drescher has collaborated with researchers from the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Trenton L. Roberts (5 shared publications), Tristen H. Avent (4 shared publications), Qamar Sarfaraz (3 shared publications), and Samuel B. Fernandes (3 shared publications). His recent publications address topics such as minimum dataset guidelines for soil-test correlation, the effects of organic and mineral fertilizers on crop yield and contaminant potential, tillage impacts on soybean growth and heavy metal accumulation, and the reapplication of limestone and gypsum in tropical oxisols.
Dr. Drescher has also examined insect frass fertilizer for improved forage and soil health, and the physiological mechanisms by which native South American grasses tolerate excess zinc in soil. His work in Arkansas specifically includes investigating corn yield responses to phosphorus and potassium fertilization and determining dynamic critical potassium concentrations in soybean leaves and petioles for nutritional monitoring.
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- h-index: 15
- Publications: 64
- Citations: 612
Selected Publications
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Multivariate evaluation of soil-water-plant health in multifunctional buffer-strip systems (2026)
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Targeted herbicide cost requirements for adoption of See & Spray technology and ways to improve area sprayed (2026)
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Weed Population Impacts Using Targeted Herbicide Applications with See & Spray™ in Soybean over a Three-year Period (2025)
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Recycling waste via insect agriculture: Frass impacts on soil and plant health (2025)
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Integrating cover crops and targeted herbicide applications in cotton production (2025)
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Improved Soil Property Prediction Models for Rice Paddies Using Measured Nutrients (2025)
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Transferability of soil management assessment framework indices to detect best soil management strategies in tropical agroecosystems (2025)
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Short-term effects of winter cover crops and summer cash crops on soil properties in Ultisol under no-tillage system in Southern Brazil (2025)
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Insect frass fertilizer as soil amendment for improved forage and soil health in circular systems (2025)
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Corn and Soybean Growth as Affected by Wastewater-Derived Struvite-Phosphorus Sources and Irrigation Water Types (2024)
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Nutrient retention after crop harvest in a typic hapludults amended with biochar types under no-tillage system (2024)
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Runoff-Water Properties from Various Soils as Affected by Struvite-Phosphorus Source and Water Type (2023)
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Nitrogen Mineralization of Compost and Vermicompost from Different Animal Manure and its Recovery by Lettuce Using 15N (2023)
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Potassium Fertilizer Rate Recommendations: Does Accounting for Soil Stock of Potassium Matter? (2023)
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Profit‐maximizing potassium fertilizer recommendations for corn and cotton (2022)
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