General Information
Name: Lu Yufang
Title: Associate Professor
Work Email: yflu@issas.ac.cn
Work Phone: 025-86881567
Research Fields
(1)Rhizospheric chemical signals and nutrient utilization
(2)Rhizosphere ecological purification of agricultural non-point source pollutants
Education Background
(1)2009 – 2014, Ph.D., Environmental Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
(2)2005 – 2009, Bachelor, Environmental Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
Professional Experience
(1)2019 ―Present, Associate Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
(2)2014 ― 2019, Assistant Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
(3)2011 ― 2012, Visiting Scholar, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Social Positions
(1)2021 – Present, Consulting Reviewer, Journal of Plant Physiology
(2)2021- Present, Innovation member, Youth Working Committee of Soil Science Society of China
Projects
(1)Mechanism of the effects of roots and periphery on nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from farmland, 2021.05-2025.12, National Key Research and Development Program of China (Sub PI)
(2)Synergistic effect and mechanism of biological nitrification inhibitors 1,9-decanediol and syringic acid from rice, 2021.01-2024-12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)
(3)The release and retention characteristics of duckweed root exudate erucamide and the mechanisms of affecting denitrification. 2016.01-2018.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)
(4)Mechanism and application of new biological nitrification/denitrification inhibitors in rhizosphere, 2019.07-2022.06, Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholar of Jiangsu Province of China (PI)
(5)Release and retention characteristics and mechanism of new plant derived denitrifying regulators, 2015.07-2018.06, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (PI)
Patents
(1)Shi Weiming, Ma Mingkun, Lu Yufang. Use of 1, 9-decanediol for preparing product for delaying hydrolysis of urea in soil and for delaying conversion of urea to other forms of nitrogen in soils: 202111309672.7, 2022-06-24
(2)Shi Weiming, Ma Mingkun, Lu Yufang. Use of 1,9-decanediol in preparing product for inhibiting soil ammonia volatilization: 202111309673.1,2022-06-24
(3)Lu Yufang, Zhang Xiaonan, Shi Weiming. Use of syringic acid in preparation for inhibiting nitrification activity of Nitrosomonas by promoting 1,9-decanediol, and preparing composition for reducing nitrogen loss in farmland: 201811524991.8, 2021-06-29
(4)Lu Yufang, Shi Weiming, Sun Li. Use of water-soluble extract in promoting denitrification activity of denitrifying microorganisms. 201610180557.7, 2019-11-08
(5)Lu Yufang, Shi Weiming, Sun Li. Use of stigmasterol in composition for inhibiting denitrifying microorganism, particularly Pseudomonas fluorescens to maintain activity of nitrogen: 201510767401.4, 2018-06-15
(6)Shi Weiming, Sun Li, Lu Yufang. Use of decanediol, for inhibiting nitrification activity of microorganism, preferably Nitrosomonas europaea: 201510926728.1, 2019-02-19
(7)Shi Weiming, Lu Yufang. New fatty acid amide compound erucamide used for improving denitrification activity in Pseudomonas fluorescens for accelerating nitrogen removal in water: 201310522412.7, 2015-02-11
(8)Shi Weiming, Lu Yufang. Use of fatty acid methyl ester i.e. (Z)-methyl hexadec-7-enoate in improving denitrifying activity of denitrification microorganism: 201310520864.1, 2015-08-19
Publications
(1)Lu YF, Zhang XN, Ma MK, Zu WJ, Kronzucker HJ, Shi WM*. Syringic acid from rice as a biological nitrification and urease inhibitor and its synergism with 1,9？decanediol. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2022,58:277–289.
(2)Lu YF, Kronzucker HJ, Shi WM*. Stigmasterol root exudation arising from Pseudomonas inoculation of the duckweed rhizosphere enhances nitrogen removal from polluted waters. Environmental Pollution, 2021, 287: 117587.
(3)Lu YF, Shi WM*. Progress in Research and Agricultural Application Prospect of Biological Nitrification Inhibitors. Acta Pedologica Sinica, 2021, 58：545–557.
(4)Lu YF, Shi WM*. Rhizospheric chemical signals and soil nutrient transformation. Biotechnology Bulletin, 2020, 36: 1-6.
(5)Lu YF, Zhang XN, Jiang JF, Kronzucker HJ, Shen WS, Shi WM*. Effects of the biological nitrification inhibitor 1,9-decanediol on nitrification and ammonia oxidizers in three agricultural soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2019,129: 48-59.
(6)Zhang XN#, Lu YF#, Yang Ting, Kronzucker HJ, Shi WM*. Influencing the release of the biological nitrification inhibitor 1,9-decanediol from rice (Oryza sativa L.) roots. Plant and Soil, 2019, 436, 253-265.
(7)Sun L, Lu YF, Yu FW, Kronzucker HJ, Shi WM*. Biological nitrification inhibition by rice root exudates and its relationship with nitrogen use efficiency. New Phytologist, 2016,212 (3) :646-656.
(8)Sun L#, Lu YF#, Kronzucker HJ, Shi WM*. Quantification and enzyme targets of fatty acid amides from duckweed root exudates involved in the stimulation of denitrification. Journal of Plant Physiology, 2016, 198: 81-88.
(9)Lu YF, Sun L, Shi WM*. Collection of root exudate from duckweed. Bio-protocol, 2015, e1367.
(10)Lu YF, Zhou YR, Nakai S, Hosomi M, Zhang HL, Herbert J. Kronzucker, Shi WM*. Stimulation of nitrogen removal in the rhizosphere of aquatic duckweed by root exudate components. Planta, 2014,239(3):1-13.
Awards & Honors
(1)2019, Selected by Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholar of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Agency, China
(2)2019, Excellent Paper Award of the State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, China
(3)2018, First prize of Chinese Soil Society Science and Technology Award, Soil Science Society of China, China
(4)2013: National scholarship for doctoral students, Ministry of Education, China
