Professors

Name: Xie Zubin

Title: Professor

Work Email: zbxie@issas.ac.cn

Work Phone: 025-86881105

(1)Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling

(2)Nutrient Management

(3)Biochar

(4)Biological N2 Fixation

(5)Plant Growth Promotion Microorganisms

(6)Stable Isotope Ecology

(7)Rare Earth Elements

(8)Ecotoxicology

(1)1998 – 2003, Ph.D., Soil Chemistry, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

(2)1983 – 1987, Bachelor, Soil and Agricultural Chemistry, China Agricultural University,  Beijing, China

(1)2005 – Present, Professor, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, China

(2)2011-2012, Visiting Scholar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

(3)2002-2003, Visiting Scholar, Imperial College, London, UK

(4)2000-2005, Associate Professor, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, China

(5)1994-2000, Assistant Professor, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, China

(6)1987-1994, Research Fellow, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, Nanjing, China

(1)2010-present, Member, Soil Science Society of America

(2)2006-Present, Editorial Board Member of Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research

(3)2005 – Present, Member, Soil Science Society of China

He innovated equipment to directly quantify biological N2 fixation under the natural sunshine environment; established a method to quickly determine biochar’s biological stability by chemical oxidation; quantified carbon pools and densities of various soils, and soil carbon pool changes which had served as a reference; build a regression model to show conversion rate of straw carbon to soil organic carbon and CH4 in upland and paddy; put forward that functional bacteria abundance and composition determine soil productivity; Gave a threshold on energy consumption to pyrolyze biomaterial to biochar to mitigation climate change; put forward a global solution to utilize biochar to increase crop yield and reduce nitrogen losses. His papers listed as corresponding author in paddy N2 fixation are the most in the world.

(1)Screening of high nitrogen fixing diazotrophs from paddy soils and their promotion to rice growth, 2022.1-2025.12, NSFC (PI)

(2)Extents and diazotrophs of paddy types and agricultural managements to regulate biological N2 fixation, 2019.1-2022.12, NSFC (PI)

(3)Biochar technology for plant growth media, 2015.1-2019.12, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural affairs (PI)

(4)National Survey of biological Nitrogen fixation resources in paddies of China, 2015.5-2020.5, Ministry of Science and Technology (PI)

(5)Impact of biochar amendment on crop production, GHG mitigation and C sequestration, 2012-2015, Natural Science Foundation of China (PI)

(6)Agronomic and environmental impacts of biochar amendment in farmland of China, 2011-2012, Blue Moon Fund, USA (PI)

(7)Paddy soil biological N2 fixation by 15N2 labelling technique, 2011-2013, Chinese Academy of Sciences (PI)

(8)Coastal salty land reclamation for carbon sequestration, 2009-2011, Ministry of Science and Technology (PI)

(9)Paddy soil biological N2 fixation by 15N2 labelling technique, 2009-2011, NSFC (PI)

carbon sequestration technique and potential in China, 2009-2011, Chinese Academy of Sciences (PI)

(10)Response of carbon cycling to elevated atmospheric CO2 in agroecosystem, 2006-2008, NSFC (PI)

(11)Carbon cycling in agroecosystem under elevated atmospheric CO2, 2004-2008, Ministry of Science and Technology (PI)

(12)Influence of elevated atmospheric CO2 on micronutrient bioavailability, 2003-2005, NSFC (PI)

(1)Zubin Xie, Qicheng Bei, Gang Liu, Jianguo Zhu. A biochar production facility (Patent No. ZL 200920232191.9)

(2)Qicheng Bei, Zubin Xie, Gangliu, Jianguo Zhu, Haoye Tang: An automatically controlled plant growth chamber in the open air (Application No. 200910232184.3)

(1)Zhang YH; Hu TL; Wang H; Jin HY; Liu Q; Chen Z; Xie ZB*. Nitrogen content and C/N ratio in straw are the key to affect biological nitrogen fixation in a paddy field. Plant Soil, 2022. DOI10.1007/s11104-022-05654-4.

(2)Chen Z; Jin PH; Wang H; Hu TL; Lin XW; Xie ZB*. Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry reveals stronger microbial carbon and nitrogen limitation in biochar amendment soils: A meta-analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 2022, DOI10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156532.

(3)Xu Q; Wang J; Liu Q; Chen Z; Jin PH; Du JZ; Fan JL; Yin WQ; Xie ZB*; Wang, XZ. Long-Term Field Biochar Application for Rice Production: Effects on Soil Nutrient Supply, Carbon Sequestration, Crop Yield and Grain Minerals. Agronomy-Basel, 2022. DOI10.3390/agronomy12081924.

(4)Bian Q; Wang XY; Bao XG; Zhu LY; Xie ZB; Che ZX; Sun B. Exogenous substrate quality determines the dominant keystone taxa linked to carbon mineralization: Evidence from a 30-year experiment. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 2022. DOI10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108683.

(5)Zhang YH, Hu TL, Wang H, Jin HY, Liu Q, Lin ZB, Liu BJ, Liu HT, Chen Z, Lin XW, Wang XJ, Ma J, Sun DL, Sun XL, Tang HY, Bei QC, Cherubini F, Arp HPH, Xie Zubin*. How do different nitrogen application levels and irrigation practices impact biological nitrogen fixation and its distribution in paddy system? Plant and Soil, 2021, 467(1-2):329-344.

(6)Liu BJ, Bei QC, Wang XJ, Liu Q, Hu SJ, Lin ZB, Zhang YH, Lin XW, Jin HY, Hu TL, Xie ZB*. Microbial metabolic efficiency and community stability in high and low fertility soils following wheat residue addition. Applied Soil Ecology, 2021, 159: 103848. 

(7)Wang XJ, Bei QC, Yang W, Zhang H, Hao JL, Qian L, Feng YC, Xie ZB*. Unveiling of active diazotrophs in a flooded rice soil by combination of NanoSIMS and 15N2-DNA-stable isotope probing. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2020, 56 (8), 1189-1199.

(8)Liu BJ, Liu Q, Wang XJ, Bei QC, Zhang YH, Lin ZB, Liu G, Zhu JG, Hu TL, Jin HY, Wang H, Sun XL, Lin XW, Xie ZB*. A fast chemical oxidation method for predicting the long-term mineralization of biochar in soils. Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 718, 1373390.

(9)Jin HY, Wang H, Zhang YH, Hu TL, Lin ZB, Liu BJ, Ma J, Wang XJ, Liu Q, Lin XW, Xie ZB*. Description of Azotobacter chroococcum subsp. isscasi subsp. nov. isolated from paddy soil and establishment of Azotobacter chroococcum subsp. chroococcum subsp. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2020, 70 (3), 2124-2131.

(10)Bei QC, Xie ZB*, Cadisch G, Rasche F. K-strategic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria capitalize on biological nitrogen fixation in a flooded, unfertilized rice soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2019, 55(7): 713-722. DOI: 10.1007/s00374-019-01387-2.

(11)Ma Jing, Bei Qicheng, Wang Xiaojie, Liu Gang, Georg Cadisch, Lin Xingwu, Zhu Jianguo, Sun Xiaoli, Xie Zubin*. Paddy system with a hybrid rice enhances cyanobacteria nostoc and increases N2 fixation. Pedosphere, 2019, 29(3):374-387.

(12)Liu Q, Liu BJ, Zhang YH, Hu TL, Lin ZB, Liu G, Wang XJ, Ma J, Wang H, Jin HY, Ambus P, Amonette JE, Xie ZB*. Biochar application as a tool to decrease soil nitrogen losses (NH3 volatilization, N2O emissions and N leaching) from croplands: options and mitigation strength in a global perspective. Global Change Biology, 2019, doi 10.1111/gcb.14613.

(13)Ma Jing, Bei Qicheng, Wang Xiaojie, Lan Ping, Liu Gang, Lin Xingwu, Liu Qi, Lin Zhibin, Liu Benjuan, Zhang Yanhui, Jin Haiyang, Hu Tianlong, Zhu Jianguo, Xie Zubin*. Impacts of Mo application on biological nitrogen fixation and diazotrophic Communities in a flooded rice-soil system. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 649: 686-694.

(14)Wang Xiaojie, Liu Benjuan, Ma Jing, Zhang Yanhui, Hu Tianlong, Zhang Heng, Feng Yucheng, Pan Hongli, Xu Zhenwen, Liu Gang, Lin Xingwu, Zhu Jianguo, Bei Qicheng, Xie Zubin*. Soil aluminum oxides determine biological nitrogen fixation and diazotrophic communities across major types of paddy soils in China. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 2019, 131: 81-89.

(15)Liu qi, Zhang Yanhui, Liu Benjuan, Amonette James E., Lin Zhibin, Liu Gang, Ambus Per, Xie Zubin*. How does biochar influence soil N cycle? A meta-analysis. Plant Soil, 2018, 426: 211-225.

(16)Liu Qi, Liu Benjuan, Zhang Yanhui, Lin Zhibin, Zhu Tongbin, Sun Ruibo, Wang Xiaojie, Ma Jing, Bei Qichegn, Liu Gang, Lin Xingwu, Xie Zubin*. Can biochar alleviate soil compaction stress on wheat growth and mitigate soil N2O emissions? Soil Biology Biochemistry, 2017, 104: 8-17.

(17)LIN Zhibin, LIU Qi, LIU Gang, Annette L. COWIE, BEI Qicheng, LIU Benjuan, WANG Xiaojie, MA Jing, ZHU Jianguo, XIE Zubin*.  Effects of Different Biochars on Pinus elliottii Growth, N Use Efficiency, Soil N2O and CH4 Emissions and Carbon Dynamics in a Subtropical Area of China. Pedosphere, 2017, 27 (2), 248-261.

(18)Qi Liu, Benjuan Liu, Per Ambus, Yanhui Zhang, Veronika Hansen, Zhibin Lin, Dachun Shen, Gang Liu, Qicheng Bei, Jianguo Zhu, Xiaojie Wang, Jing Ma, Xingwu Lin, Yongchang Yu, Chunwu Zhu and Zubin Xie*. Carbon footprint of rice production under biochar amendment — a case study in a Chinese rice cropping system. GCB Bioenergy, 2016, 8(1):148-159. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12248.

(19)Peng X, Zhu QH, Xie ZB, Darboux F, Holden NM. The impact of manure, straw and biochar amendments on aggregation and erosion in a hillslope Ultisol. CATENA, 2016, 138: 30-37.

(20)Lin XW, Xie ZB*, Zheng JY, Liu Q, Bei QC, Zhu JG. Effects of biochar application on greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration, and crop growth in coastal saline soil. European J of Soil Science, 2015, 66(2), 329-338.

(21)Shan J, Ji R, Yu YJ, Xie ZB, Yan XY. Biochar, activated carbon, and carbon nanotubes have different effects on fate of C-14-catechol and microbial community in soil. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2015, 5, DOI: 10.1038/srep16000.

(22)Lin XW, Wang SP, Hu YG, Luo CY, Zhang ZH, Niu HS, Xie ZB*. Experimental Warming Increases Seasonal Methane Uptake in an Alpine Meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecosystems, 2015, 18(2), 274-286.

(23)Weiwei Lu, Weixin Ding, Junhua Zhang, Yi li, Jiafa Luo, Nanthi Bolan, Zubin Xie. Biochar suppressed the decomposition of organic carbon in a cultivated sandy loam soil: a negative priming effect. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 2014, 76, 12-21.

(24)Kou TJ, Wang LR, Zhu, JG, Xie ZB, Wang YL. Ozone pollution influences soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration and aggregate composition in paddy soils. PLANT AND SOIL, 2014, 380 (1-2), 305-313. 

(25)Zhu QH, Peng XH, Huang TQ, Xie ZB, Holden NM. Effect of Biochar Addition on Maize Growth and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Acidic Red Soils. PEDOSPHERE, 2014, 24 (6):699-708.

(26)Qicheng Bei, Gang Liu, Haoye Tang, Georg Cadisch, Frank Rasche, Zubin Xie*. Heterotrophic and phototrophic 15N2 fixation and distribution of fixed 15N in a flooded rice-soil system. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 2013, 59, 25-31.

(27)Zubin Xie*, Yanping Xu, Gang Liu, Qi liu, Jianguo Zhu, Cong Tu, James E. Amonette, Georg Cadisch, Jean W. H. Yong, Shuijin Hu. Impact of biochar application on nitrogen nutrition of rice, greenhouse-gas emissions and soil organic carbon dynamics in two paddy soils of China. Plant and Soil, 2013, DOI 10.1007/s11104-013-1636-x.

(28)Wang Yu, Wang Lei, Fang Guodong, HMSK Herath, Wang Yujun, Cang Long, Zubin Xie, Dongmei Zhou. Enhanced PCBs sorption on biochars as affected by environmental factors: Humic acid and metal cations. Environmental Pollution, 2013, 172: 86-93.

(29)Feng Youzhi, Xu Yanping, Yu Yongchang, Xie Zubin*, Lin Xiangui. Mechanisms of biochar decreasing methane emission from Chinese paddy soils. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 2012, 46, 80-88. 

(30)Song Yang, Wang Fang, Bian Yongrong, Fredrich Orori Kengara, Jia Mingyuan, Xie Zubin, Jiang xin. Bioavailability assessment of hexachlorobenzene in soil as affected by wheat straw biochar. J of hazardous materials, 2012, 217-218, 391-397.

(31)Zhang Hanzhi, Huang Yun, Liu Gang, Xu Yanping, Liu Jinshan, Bei Qicheng, Lin Xingwu, Zhu Jianguo, Xie Zubin*. Effects of biochar on corn growth, nutrient uptake and soil chemical properties in seeding stage. Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2010, 19(11), 2713-2717 (in Chinese).

(32)Zubin Xie*, Gang Liu, Qicheng Bei, Haoye Tang, Jinshan Liu, Huifeng Sun, Yanping Xu, Jianguo Zhu, Georg Cadisch. CO2 mitigation potential in farmland of China by altering current organic matter amendment pattern. Science China-Earth Sciences, 2010, 53(9), 1351-1357.

(33)Jinshan Liu, Zubin Xie*, Gang Liu, Jiabao Zhang, Qicheng Bei, Ping Huang, Huifeng Sun, Yanping Xu, Jianguo Zhu, Haoyan Tang. A Holistic Evaluation of CO2 Equivalent Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Compost Reactors with Aeration and Calcium Superphosphate Addition. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2010, 1(2),177-185.

(34)Xingwu Lin, Shiping Wang, Xiuzhi Ma, Guangping Xu, Caiyun Luo, Gaoming Jiang, Zubin Xie. Fluxes of CO2, CH4 and N2O in an alpine meadow affected by yak excreta on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during summer grazing period. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 2009, 41(4), 718-725.

(35)Zubin Xie*, Jianguo Zhu, Gang Liu, Chunmei Chen, Huifeng Sun, Haoyan Tang, Qing Zeng. Soil organic carbon stocks in China and changes from 1980s to 2000s. Global Change Biology，2007, 13(9), 1989-2007.

(36)Hongliang Ma, Jianguo Zhu, Gang Liu, Zubin Xie, Yulong Wang, Lianxin Yang, Qing Zeng. Availability of Soil nitrogen and phosphorus in a typical rice-wheat rotation system under elevated atmospheric CO2. Field Crops Research, 2007, 100, 44-51.

(37)Hongliang Ma, Jianguo Zhu, Zubin Xie, Gang Liu, Qing Zeng, Yong Han. Response of rice and wheat to free-air CO2 enrichment (China FACE) at rice/wheat rotation system. Plant and Soil, 2007, 294, 137-146.

(38)Taiji Kou, Jianguo Zhu, Zubin Xie, Toshihiro Hasegawa, Katia Heiduk. Effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration on soil and root respiration in winter wheat by using a respiration partitioning chamber. Plant and Soil, 2007, 299: 237-249.

(39)Pang jing, Zhu Jianguo, Xie Zubin. A new explanation of the [N] decrease in tissues of rice (Oryza sativa L.) exposed to elevated atmospheric pCO2. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2006, 57：98－105.

(40)Zubin Xie*, Georg Cadisch, Grant Edwards, Elizabeth M. Baggs, and Herbert Blum. Carbon dynamics in a temperate grassland soil after 9 years exposure to elevated CO2 (Swiss FACE), Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2005, 1387-1395.

(41)Zubin Xie*, ZHU Jian-guo, CHU Hai-yan, ZHANG Ya-li, GAO Ren, CAO Zhi-hong. Effect of lanthanum on rice growth and physiological parameters with split-root nutrient solution method. Journal of Rare Earth, 2003, 21(1): 86-91.

(42)CHEN Chunmei, XIE Zubin*, ZHU Jianguo. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration on soil carbon. Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture, 2008, 16(1): 217-222 (in Chinese).

(43)Chunmei Chen, Zubin Xie*, Jianguo Zhu, Sen Dou. Influence of wheat straw incorporation from elevated pCO2 on CH4 emission at paddy conditions. Journal of Agro-environment Science, 2007, 26(4): 1550－1555 (in Chinese).

(44)Hongli Pan, Zubin Xie*, Jianguo Zhu, Gang Liu, Yali Zhang, Zucong Cai. Effects of free air CO2 enrichment (FACE) on soil particle composition and C dynamics. Ecology and Environment, 2007, 16(2): 269－274 (in Chinese).

(45)Chunmei Chen, Zubin Xie*, Jianguo Zhu. Advances in soil organic carbon priming effect research. Soil, 2006, 4: 359－365 (in Chinese).

(46)Zubin Xie*, Georg Cadisch, Elizabeth M. Baggs, Grant R. Edwards, and Herbert Blum. Higher N2O emission from grassland soil following 9 years of exposure to elevated atmospheric CO2 in Switzerland: A matter of increased root carbon input? In 3rd International Nitrogen Conference (Zhaoliang Zhu, Katsu Minami and Guangxi Xing eds.), 2005, Science Press, and Science Press USA Inc. pp.768-774.

(47)Xie Zubin*, Zhu Jianguo, Pan Hongli, Ma Hongliang, Liu Gang, Georg Cadisch, Pang Jing. Stimulated rice growth and decreased straw quality under free air CO2 enrichment (FACE). The Proceedings of the China Association for science and Technology (ed: Feng Changgen, Huang Ping, Ma Yang, Wang Yajun, Li Shengcai, Su Qing). 2004, Science Press, Beijing/New York.pp 640-645.

(48)Xie Zubin*, Zhu Jian-guo, Chu Hai-yan, Zhang Ya-li, Gao Ren, Zeng Qing, Cao Zi-hong. Effect of lanthanum on rice growth and physiological parameters with split-root nutrient solution culture. Journal of Rare Earths, 2003, 21(1): 86-91.

(49)Xie Zubin*, Zhu Jian-guo, Chu Hai-yan, Zhang Ya-li, Zeng Qing, Cao Zi-hong. Influence of lanthanum on phosphorus uptake and its chemical fraction in rice crop. Journal of Rare Earths, 2003, 180-184.

(50)Z.B. Xie*, J.G. Zhu, H.Y.Chu, Y.L.Zhang, Q.Zeng, H.L.Ma, And Z.H.Cao. Effect of lanthanum on rice production, nutrient uptake and distribution. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 2002, 25(10): 2315-2331.

(51)Xie Zubin*, Zhu Jianguo, Zhang Yali, Ma Hongliang, Liu Gang, Hang Yong, Zeng Qing and Cai Zucong. Responses of Rice (Oryza sativa) growth and its C, N, and P composition to FACE and N, P fertilization. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2002, 13(10);1223-1230 (in Chinese).

(52)Xie Zubin*, ZHU Jian-guo, CHU Hai-yan, ZHENG Qing, ZHANG Ya-li, CHAO Zi-hong. Influence of Exogenous Lanthanum on Fertility Parameters of Red Soil and Paddy Soil. Journal of Rare Earth, 2001, 19(3): 229-232.

(53)Xie Zubin*, Zhu jianguo, Chu Haiyan, Cao Zihong, and Deng Xihai. Effect of lanthanum accumulation on cation exchange capacity and solution composition of red soil. Pedosphere, 2000, 10(2): 171-176.

(54)Xie Zubin*, Zhu Jianguo, Chu Haiyan, Cao Zhihong and Zeng Qing. Effects of the addition of exogenous lanthanum on cation exchange capacity and solution composition of red earth. Journal of Nanjing agricultural university, 2000, 23(2): 61-64 (in Chinese).

(1)2020 Excellent Employee, Institute of Soil Science, CAS

(2)2020 Excellent Tutor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

(3)2021 Leading Swan Award, University of Chinese Academy of Science