Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world’s grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly...

Silicon (Si) is known to help plants mitigate environmental stresses and nutrient deficits. In some regions, the limited plant-available Si in soils can have detrimental effects on yields. Crop residue recycling is used to maintain the amount of plant-available Si in soils. However, the effect of crop residue management practices on Si availability to plants remains largely understudied. Here, we study the effects of three dif...