General Information
Name: Zhao Xueqiang
Title: Professor
Work Email: xqzhao@issas.ac.cn
Work Phone: 025-86881020
Research Fields
Plant adaptation to soil stresses
Plant-soil-microbe interaction
Education Background
2003 – 2006, Ph.D., Plant Nutrition, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
2000 – 2003, Master, Soil Science, Henan Agricultural University , Zhengzhou, China
1996 – 2000, Bachelor, Soil and Agricultural Chemistry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
Professional Experience
2020 ―Present, Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
2014 ― 2020, Associate Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
2012 ― 2014, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Bioresouce Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Japan
2010 ― 2012, Associate Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
2006 ― 2009, Assistant Professor, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Social Positions
2022 – Present, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Plant Science
Projects
Coupling of red soil pH, nitrogen fertilizer forms and crop ammonium/nitrate preference for efficient nitrogen use, 2021.01-2024.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)
Publications
(1) Jia Lin Wang, Kai Lou Liu, Xue Qiang Zhao*, Gui-Feng Gao, Yong Hong Wu, Ren Fang Shen. Microbial keystone taxa drive crop productivity through shifting aboveground-belowground mineral element flows. Science of the Total Environment, 2022, 811: 152342
(2) Hao Qing Zhang, Xue Qiang Zhao*, Yu Shi, Yuting Liang, Ren Fang Shen. Changes in soil bacterial communities with increasing distance from maize roots affected by ammonium and nitrate additions. Geoderma, 2021, 398: 115102
(3) Xue Qiang Zhao, Ren Fang Shen*. Aluminum-nitrogen interactions in the soil-plant system. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018, 9: 807
(4) Xue Qiang Zhao, Shi Wei Guo, Fumie Shinmachi, Michio Sunairi, Akira Noguchi, Isao Hasegawa, Ren Fang Shen*. Aluminum tolerance in rice is antagonistic with nitrate preference and synergistic with ammonium preference. Annals of Botany, 2013, 111: 69-77
(5) Xue Qiang Zhao, Namiki Mitani, Naoki Yamaji, Ren Fang Shen*, Jian Feng Ma. Involvement of silicon influx transporter OsNIP2;1 in selenite uptake in rice. Plant Physiology, 2010, 153: 1871-1877
(*denotes corresponding author)
Awards & Honors
2015, The First prize of Science and Technology Award of China Soil Society
2010, The Outstanding Young Scholar Award of China Soil Society
