Scientists use AI to predict when burnt plant waste will help or harm farm soil phosphorus levels

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence model that can predict, before anything goes into the ground, whether biochar, a charcoal-like material made by burning plant waste, will boost phosphorus availability for crops or hold it back to prevent waterway pollution. The study, led by Yutao Peng of Sun Yat-Sen University in Shenzhen, drew on 534 measurements from 32 earlier studies and ran them through three machine learning systems.

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