Newton Lupwayi, PhD

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Research Scientist

Soil microbiology

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Lethbridge, Alberta

Current research and/or projects

  • The right balance: management strategies for plugging organic soil health.
  • Soybean and Corn Cropping Systems - Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster.
  • Optimizing agroecosystems resiliency - Optimizing systems productivity, resilience and sustainability in the major Canadian ecozones.
  • Integrating multiple beneficial management practices (BMPs) in organic cropping systems: Soil health, weed and insect interactions.
  • Elucidating and exploiting rhizosphere processes for improved soil health and productivity.
  • Evaluation of economic and agro-ecological merits of diverse cropping sequences with perennial forage seed and annual field crops.
  • Novel vs. traditional manure/compost to conserve soil resources and improve soil health.
  • Management strategies to improve rangeland soil health and productivity.
  • Diversity and ecosystem function of insects in cattle dung on pasture.

Research and/or project statements

Study soil microbial community composition, diversity and functioning in agroecosystems.

Professional activities / interests

Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 2017 & 2018

Editorial Board Member, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (journal), 2009-Present

Education and awards

PhD Soil Microbiology, Lincoln University, New Zealand

Co-author of Best 2016 Agronomy Paper in Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 2017

Gold Harvest Award for Innovation, Collaboration and Service Excellence, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 2015

International experience and/or work

Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Lilongwe, Malawi

International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Key publications

  1. O'Donovan, J.T., Grant, C.A., Blackshaw, R.E., Harker, K.N., Johnson, E.N., Gan, Y.T., May, W.E., Turkington, T.K., Lupwayi, N.Z., Khakbazan, M., and Smith, E.G. (2015). "Legumes in rotation affect hybrid canola and malting barley.", 14th International Rapeseed Congress, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, July 5-9, 2015, Keynote Theme D oral presentation.

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  2. Beres, B.L., Pageau, D., Dion, Y., Turkington, T.K., Lupwayi, N.Z., Larney, F.J., Ellert, B.H., and Smith, E.G. (2015). "Rotational Diversity Effects in a Cereal-Based Cropping System.", Botany 2015, Shaw Convention Center, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 25-29, 2015.

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  3. Turkington, T.K., Xi, K., Harker, K.N., O'Donovan, J.T., Blackshaw, R.E., McAllister, T.A., and Lupwayi, N.Z. (2015). "The impact of barley variety rotation, mixtures, and intercropping on leaf disease and silage production.", XVIII International Plant Protection Congress (IPPC), Free University Berlin, Henry Ford Building, Berlin, Germany, August 24-27, 2015.

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  4. Harker, K.N., O'Donovan, J.T., Turkington, T.K., Blackshaw, R.E., Lupwayi, N.Z., Smith, E.G., Johnson, E.N., Kutcher, H.R., Willenborg, C.J., Gan, Y.T., Dosdall, L.M., Hall, L.M., Peng, G., Irvine, R.B., and Mohr, R.M. (2015). "Sustainable canola production increases with cropping system diversity.", 14th International Rapeseed Congress, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, July 5-9, 2015. (Poster)

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  5. Hamel, C., Li, Y., Lupwayi, N.Z., Jazestani, J., and Abdellatif, L. (2015). "Improving Nutrient Efficiency with AM fungi.", FarmTech - Invited Talk at Techtransfer Conferences, Edmonton EXPO Centre at Northlands, January 26-28, 2015. (Presentation)

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  6. Turkington, T.K., Xi, K., Harker, K.N., O'Donovan, J.T., Blackshaw, R.E., McAllister, T.A., and Lupwayi, N.Z. (2015). "The impact of barley variety rotation, mixtures, and intercropping on leaf disease and silage production.", Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology. (Abstract)

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  7. Beres, B.L., Pageau, D., Dion, Y., Turkington, T.K., Lupwayi, N.Z., Larney, F.J., Ellert, B.H., and Smith, E.G. (2015). "Rotational diversity effects in a cereal-based cropping system.", Canadian Journal of Plant Science. (Abstract)

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  8. Harker, K.N., O’Donovan, J.T., Turkington, T.K., Blackshaw, R.E., Lupwayi, N.Z., Smith, E.G., Dosdall, L.M., Hall, L.M., Kutcher, H.R., Willenborg, C.J., Peng, G., Irvine, R.B., Mohr, R. (2015). Canola cultivar mixtures and rotations do not mitigate the negative impacts of continuous canola. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 95(6), 1085-1099. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/CJPS-2015-126

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  9. Lupwayi, N.Z., Soon, Y.K. (2015). Carbon and nitrogen release from legume crop residues for three subsequent crops. Soil Science Society of America Journal, [online] 79(6), 1650-1659. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2015.05.0198

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  10. Blackshaw, R.E., Pearson, D.C., Larney, F.J., Regitnig, P.J., Nitschelm, J.J., Lupwayi, N.Z. (2015). Conservation Management and Crop Rotation Effects on Weed Populations in a 12-Year Irrigated Study. Weed Technology, [online] 29(4), 835-843. http://dx.doi.org/10.1614/WT-D-15-00071.1

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  11. Improving Nutrient Efficiency with AM Fungi. Presentation at FarmTech, held January 26, 27 & 28, 2015 at the Edmonton EXPO Centre at Northlands.

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  12. Lupwayi, N.Z., Harker, K.N., O'Donovan, J.T., Turkington, T.K., Blackshaw, R.E., Hall, L.M., Willenborg, C.J., Gan, Y., Lafond, G.P., May, W.E., Grant, C.A. (2015). Relating soil microbial properties to yields of no-till canola on the Canadian prairies. European Journal of Agronomy, [online] 62 110-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2014.10.004

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  13. Harker, K.N., O’Donovan, J.T., Turkington, T.K., Blackshaw, R.E., Lupwayi, N.Z., Smith, E.G., Johnson, E.N., Gan, Y., Kutcher, H.R., Dosdall, L.M., Peng, G. (2015). Canola rotation frequency impacts canola yield and associated pest species. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 95(1), 9-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/CJPS-2014-289

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  14. Cárcamo, H.A., Herle, C.E., Lupwayi, N.Z., Weintraub, P. (2015). Sitona lineatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Larval Feeding on Pisum sativum L. Affects Soil and Plant Nitrogen. Journal of Insect Science, [online] 15(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iev055

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  15. Larney, F.J., Pearson, D.C., Li, L., Blackshaw, R.E., Lupwayi, N.Z. (2015). Conservation management practices and rotations for irrigated dry bean production in Southern Alberta. Agronomy Journal, [online] 107(6), 2281-2293. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/agronj15.0062

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  16. Turkington, T.K., Xi, K., Harker, K.N., O'Donovan, J.T., Blackshaw, R.E., McAllister, T.A., and Lupwayi, N.Z. (2014). "The impact of barley variety monoculture, rotation and mixtures, and intercropping on leaf disease and silage production.", 1st International Workshop on Barley Leaf Diseases, SalsomaggioreTerme, Italy, June 3-6, 2014, pp. 73. (Abstract)

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  17. O'Donovan, J.T., Harker, K.N., Turkington, T.K., Blackshaw, R.E., Beres, B.L., Clayton, G.W., Lafond, G.P., Lupwayi, N.Z., and Dosdall, L.M. (2014). "The role of agronomic research in meeting cropping system challenges in western Canada.", 2nd Canadian Wheat Symposium, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, June 8-11, 2014.

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  18. Larney, F.J., Li, L., Lupwayi, N.Z., Angers, D.A., Pearson, D.C., and Blackshaw, R.E. (2014). "Soil quality changes over 12 years of conservation management on irrigated crop rotations in southern Alberta.", Canadian Geophysical Union-Canadian Society of Soil Science (CGU/CSSS) Joint Annual Meeting, Banff, AB, Canada, May 4-8, 2014, Poster. (Abstract)

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  19. Larney, F.J., Li, L., Lupwayi, N.Z., Angers, D.A., Pearson, D.C., and Blackshaw, R.E. (2014). "Irrigated crop rotations: soil quality.", Irrigated Crop Production Update, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, January 21-22, 2014.

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  20. Beres, B.L., Pageau, D., Dion, Y., Turkington, T.K., Lupwayi, N.Z., Larney, F.J., Ellert, B.H., and Smith, E.G. (2014). "Rotational Diversity Effects in a Triticale-Based Cropping System.", ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meeting 2014, Long Beach, CA, USA, November 2-5, 2014.

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Contact

Research facility

Lethbridge Research and Development Centre
5403 1st Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB T1J 4B1
Canada

Expertise

Agriculture›Agro-Ecosystem productivity and health

Affiliations

Canadian Society of Soil Science

Soil Science Society of America

Language

English