Tengxiang Lian
Title： Associate Professor
Address: Room 921, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou
Contact Tel: 020-85288024
Email: liantx@scau.edu.cn
RESEARCH INTEREST
Crop-soil-microbe interactions, the nodulation mechanism of soybean rhizobia, farmland molecular ecology, etc.
Tengxiang Lian
2007.09-2011.07: Bachelor, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology.
2011.09-2016.07: Ph.D, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2016.08-now: Worked at South China Agricultural University; Associate professor, Master's Supervisor
AWARDS AND HONORS
First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award
PUBLICATIONS
[1] Cheng L, Liu Q, Nian H, Martin Hartmann, Lam-Son Phan Tran, Tania Galindo-Castañeda, Lian TX, Microbial enhancement of plant aluminum tolerance, Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2025
[2] Zhang EX, Liu K, Liang SW, Liu LR, Nian, H*, Lian TX*. Investigating the synergistic effects of nano-zinc and biochar in mitigating aluminum toxicity in soybeans. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (2024).
[3] Cai Z, Yu T, Tan W, Zhou Q, Liu LR, Nian H*, Lian TX*. GmAMT2.1/2.2-dependent ammonium nitrogen and metabolites shape rhizosphere microbiome assembly to mitigate cadmium toxicity. npj Biofilms Microbiomes 10, 60 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-024-00532-6
[4] Tan W, Nian H, Tran L S P*, Jin J*, Lian TX*. Small peptides: novel targets for modulating plant–rhizosphere microbe interactions. Trends in Microbiology, 2024.
[5] Zhao S#, Liu X#, Banerjee S., Hartmann M, Peng B, Elvers R, Zhao ZY, Zhou N, Liu JJ, Wang BZ, Tian CY*, Jiang JD*, Lian TX*. (2024). Continuous planting of euhalophyte Suaeda salsa enhances microbial diversity and multifunctionality of saline soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 90(4), e02355-23.
[6] Lian T*, Cheng L, Liu Q, Yu T, Nian H*, Hartmann M*. Potential relevance between soybean nitrogen uptake and rhizosphere prokaryotic communities under waterlogging stress. ISME Communications, 2023, 3, 71. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00282-0
[7] Liu L, Cheng L, Liu K, Yu TB, Liu Q, Gong ZH, Cai ZD, Liu JJ, Zhao XQ, Nian H*, Ma QB*, Lian TX*. Transgenic soybean of GsMYB10 shapes rhizosphere microbes to promote resistance to aluminum (Al) toxicity. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023.
[8] Liu Q, Cheng L, Nian H, Jin J, Lian TX*. Linking plant functional genes to rhizosphere microbes: a review. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2023,21,902-917.
[9] Liu LR, Hai Nian*, and Tengxiang Lian*. "Plants and rhizospheric environment: Affected by zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs). A review." Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (2022).
[10] Yu TB, Cheng L, Liu Q, Wang SS, Zhou Y, Zhong HB, Tang MF, Nian H*, Lian TX*. Effects of Waterlogging on Soybean Rhizosphere Bacterial Community Using V4, LoopSeq, and PacBio 16S rRNA Sequence. Microbiology Spectrum. 2022.
[11] Huang J, Li YF, Li YS, Jin J, Lian TX*. The rhizospheric microbiome becomes more diverse with maize domestication and genetic improvement. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2022 .21(4), 1188-1202.
[12] Yuan M, Yu T, Shi QH, Han DW, Yu KC, Wang SR, Xiang H, Wen RH, Nian H* and Lian TX*. Rhizosphere soil bacterial communities of continuous cropping-tolerant and sensitive soybean genotypes respond differently to long-term continuous cropping in Mollisols, Frontiers in Microbiology. 2021.
[13] Lian TX#, Huang YY#, Xie XA, Huo X, Shahid MQ, Tian L, Lan T*, Jin J*. Rice SST variation shapes the rhizosphere bacterial community conferring tolerance to salt stress through regulating soil metabolites. mSystems. 2020
[14] Shi QH, Liu YT, Shi AQ, Cai ZD, Nian H, Hartmann M, Lian TX* Rhizosphere Soil Fungal Communities of Aluminum-Tolerant and -Sensitive Soybean Genotypes Respond Differently to Aluminum Stress in an Acid Soil. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2020. 11:1177
[15] Shi QH, Jin J, Liu YT, Zhang YF, Cai ZD, Ma QB, Cheng YB, Wen RH, Nian H*, Lian TX*. Rhizosphere High Aluminum Drives Different Rhizobacterial Communities Between Aluminum-Tolerant and Aluminum-Sensitive Wild Soybean. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2020. 11:1996
[16] Lian T#, Ma L#, Zeng Y, Chang Scott X, Li Q, Chen X*, Nian H*. Earthworm rather than biochar and sodium silicate addition increased bacterial diversity in mining areas subjected to chemical fertilization. Biochar 2020, 1, 365–374