Dr Lixiao Nie
Associate Professor in Crop Physiology
Expertise Statement
Dr. Lixiao Nie’s current interest includes new crop and resource management aiming
to synchronize the supply of water and nutrient with the crop’s demand for water and
nutrients in order to avoid luxury consumption of the resources, to maximize input use
efficiency, and to simultaneously increase grain yield. Besides, I have also conducted
field experiments on different tillage and residue managements, impact of climate
changes on rice quality.
Dr. Nie conducted his PhD thesis research at the Philippines based International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) from January 2005 to July 2007. His research is part of the
CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food through the project “developing a
System of Temperate and Tropical Aerobic Rice in Asia (STAR)”. During his Ph.D
research, a long-term field and a series of pot experiments were conducted to identify
the causes for yield decline of the continuous aerobic rice and found that abiotic
factors were more responsible for the yield decline. In addition to experience with
most labs, fields, and pot research, experimental design, and statistical analysis, his
work also involved studies on nitrogen use efficiency, drought stress physiology,
water productivity (in collaboration with Dr. Bas A.M. Bouman at IRRI), soil
nutrition (macro & micro nutrients), and nematology.
Teaching Duties

Crop Physiology
Research Interests

Direct-seeded rice production

Yield potential of flooded and aerobic rice

Crop nutrition and soil fertility
Education & Working Experience
EDUCATION
B.S.
Agronomy, August 1999
Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, China.
Ph.D.
Agronomy, June 2008
Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, China
Major advisor: Shaobing Peng
WORKING EXPERIENCE
1999-2003
Teacher
No. 6 Middle School in Dengzhou city,
Henan, China.
2005-2007
PhD-Thesis Scholar
International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
2008-2010
Assistant Professor
Huazhong Agricultural University
2010-2011
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
Tohoku University, Japan
2011-present
Associate Professor
Huazhong Agricultural University
PUBLICATIONS


Nie L*, Peng S, Chen M, Shah F, Huang J, Cui K, Xiang J. 2012. Aerobic rice
for water-saving agriculture: A review. Agronomy for Sustainable
Development, 32:41-418.
Nie L*, Peng S, Bouman BAM, Shah F, Huang J, Cui K, Wu W, Xiang J, and
Visperas RM. 2012. Synergic effect between flooding and nitrogen application












on alleviation of soil sickness caused by aerobic rice monocropping. Plant
Production Science, 15(3):246-251.
Qi X, Wu W, Peng S, Shah F, Huang J, Cui K, Liu H, and Nie L *. 2012.
Improvement of early seedling growth of dry direct-seeded rice by urease
inhibitors application. Australian Journal of Crop Science, 6(3):525-531.
Qi X, Wu W, Peng S, Shah F, Huang J, Cui K, Liu H, and Nie L *. 2012.
Ammonia volatilization from urea application influenced germination and
early seedling growth of dry direct-seeded rice. TheScientificWorldJournal,
2012: 857472.
Nie L, Peng, S., Bouman, B.A.M., Huang, J., Cui, K., Visperas, R.M., and
Xiang, J. 2009. Alleviating soil sickness caused by aerobic monocropping:
Responses of aerobic rice to fallow, flooding and crop rotation. Journal of
Food Agriculture and Environment, 7(3&4):723-727.
Nie L., Nie, L., Peng, S., Bouman, B.A.M., Huang, J., Cui, K., Visperas,
R.M., and Xiang, J. 2009. Alleviating soil sickness caused by aerobic
monocropping: Responses of aerobic rice to various nitrogen sources. Soil
Science and Plant Nutrition, 55(1):150-159.
Nie L., Peng, S., Bouman, B.A.M., Huang, J., Cui, K., Visperas, R.M., and
Xiang, J. 2008. Alleviating soil sickness caused by aerobic monocropping:
Responses of aerobic rice to nutrient supply. Field Crops Research
107:129-136.
Nie L., Peng, S., Bouman, B.A.M., Huang, J., Cui, K., Visperas, R.M., and
Park, H.K. 2007. Alleviating soil sickness caused by aerobic monocropping:
Responses of aerobic rice to soil oven-heating. Plant and Soil 300:185-195.
Nie L., Peng, S., Bouman, B.A.M., Huang, J., Cui, K., Visperas, R.M., and
Park, H.K. 2007. Solophos fertilizer improved rice plant growth in aerobic
soil. Journal of Integrated Field Science 4: 65-70.
Xu, Y., Nie L., Buresh, J.R., Huang, J., Cui, K., Xu, B., Gong, W., Peng, S.
2010. Agronomic performance of late-season rice under different tillage, straw
and nitrogen management. Field Crops Res. 115:79-84.
Xiang, J., Haden R.V., Peng, S., Bouman, B.A.M., Visperas, R.M., Nie L.,
Huang, J., Cui, K. 2009. Improvement of N availability, N uptake and growth
of aerobic rice following soil acidification. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
55:705–714.
Chen, M., Huang, J., Cui, K., Nie L., Shah F. 2009. Genotypic variations in
ammonia volatilization from rice canopy and the possible influencing factors.
Asian Journal of Plant Sciences 8(5): 353-360.
Sasaki, Y., Hosen, Y., Peng, S., Nie L., Rodriguez, R., Agbisit, R., Fernandez,
L., Bouman, B.A.M. 2010. Do abiotic factors cause a gradual yield decline
under continuous aerobic rice cultivation? Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
56:476-482.
Chen, M., Huang, J., Cui, K., Nie L., Peng S. 2010. Genotypic variations in
ammonia volatilization rate of rice shoots and its relationship with nitrogen
use efficiency. ACTA Agronomica Sinica 36(5): 1-6.










Peng, S., Bouman, B.A.M., Visperas, R.M., Castañeda, A., Nie L., and Park,
H.K. 2006. Comparison between aerobic and flooded rice in the tropics:
agronomic performance in an eight-season experiment. Field Crops Res.
96:252-259.
Wang, F., Jian, Z., Nie L., Cui, K., Peng, S., Lin, Y., Huang, J. 2012. Effects
of N treatments on the yield advantage of Bt-SY63 over SY63 (Oryza sativa)
and the concentration of Bt protein. Field Crops Res. 129:39-45.
Wang, F., Ye C., Zhu L., Nie L., Cui, K., Peng, S., Lin, Y., Huang, J. 2012.
Yield differences between Bt transgenic rice lines and their non-Bt
counterparts, and its possible mechanism. Field Crops Res. 126:8-15.
Wu, W., Huang, J., Cui, K., Nie L., Wang, Q., Yang, F., Shah, F., Yao, F.,
Peng, S. 2012. Sheath blight reduces stem breaking resistance and increases
lodging susceptibility of rice plants. Field Crops Res. 128:101-108.
Yao, F., Huang, J., Cui, K., Nie L., Xiang, J., Liu, X., Wu, W., Chen, M.,
Peng, S. 2012. Agronomic performance of high-yielding rice variety grown
under alternate wetting and drying irrigation . Field Crops Res. 126:16-22.
Wei, D., Cui, K., Pan, J., Ye, G., Xiang, J., Nie L., Huang, J. 2011. Genetic
dissection of grain nitrogen use efficiency and grain yield and their
relationship in rice. Field Crops Res. 124:340-346.
Shah, F., Huang, J., Cui, K., Nie L., Shah, T., Chen, C., Wang, K. 2011.
Impact of high-temperature stress on rice plant and its traits related to
tolerance. J. Agri. Sci. 149:545-556.
Shah, F., Huang, J., Cui, K., Nie L., Shah, T., Wu, W., Wang, K., Khan, Z.,
Zhu, L., Chen, C. 2011. Physiological and biochemical changes in rice
associated with high night temperature stress and their amelioration by
exogenous application of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). 5(13):1810-1816.
Pan, J., Cui, K., Wei, D., Huang, J., Xiang, J., Nie L. 2011. Relationships of
non-structural carbohydrates accumulation and translocation with yield
formation in rice recombinant inbred lines under two nitrogen levels.
Physiologia Plantarum 141:321-331.
Chen M., Zhou C., Li M., Cui K., Nie L., Huang J. 2011. Effects on
Ammonia Volatilization from Shoot of Rice by Inhibitor. Plant Science
Journal 29: 206-211.
PHD DISSERTATION
Determining the mechanisms of yield decline under continuous aerobic rice system
and developing strategies for alleviating the soil sickness caused by aerobic rice
monocropping.
Advisors: Dr. Shaobing Peng and Dr. Bas A.M. Bouman, Crop and Environmental
Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
Contact details
Crop Physiology and Production Center (CPPC)
College of Plant Science and Technology
Huazhong Agricultural University
Wuhan, Hubei 430070
P.R. China
Tel: +86-27-8728 8345
Mobile: +86-18627905286
E-mail: nielixiao@mail.hzau.edu.cn