Soils for food security

Dr. Guangzhou Wang, Associate Professor of Plant Nutrition at China Agricultural University, China. His research mainly focuses on the plant–microbe interactions, aiming at exploring the microbial potentials to benefit crops in stressful and competitive situations. He has published 28 peer-reviewed papers in domestic and international high profile journals such as Nature Communications, Ecology Letters, and Global Change Biology. He is currently committee members of both Soil Health Working Group of Soil Science Society of China and the Rhizosphere Nutrition Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer Science. He is also served as a reviewer for New Phytologist, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, and others

Dr. Qichao Zhu, a full-time Associate Professor in the College of Resources and Environment at China Agricultural University since 2020. His research mainly focuses on the quantification, modeling, and mitigation on soil acidification, as well as the interaction with crop productivity, heavy metal pollution, and related environmental impacts. He is also involved in agricultural development strategy consulting research using the tools of mass flow assessment, indicator system comprehensive assessment, and multi-objective optimization on agricultural food system. Over the last 10 years, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed international papers from his research. He is currently a Young Guest Editor of Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering

Dr. Junling Zhang, Professor of the Department of Plant Nutrition, National Academy of Agriculture Green Development, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Her research focuses on soil health, and in particular she is interested in the biodiversity and function of soil microbial communities. She has been working in understanding aboveground and belowground interactions, in particular how plant–microbial interactions affect nutrient fluxes, plant productivity, and soil fertility. The impact of mycorrhizal fungi on plant growth, productivity and quality, and other ecosystem services is also among her research interest. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in a number of international SCI-indexed journals

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