Staff profile

Dr Xiaojuan Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences
Department of Agricultural Science
AgriBio, the Centre for AgriBioscience

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BAgSc (Gansu Agricultural University, China), PhD (La Trobe Univerisity)

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Society of Soil Science

Area of study

Agricultural Sciences

Brief Profile

Wang graduated with a BAgSc from Gansu Agricultural University, China in 1998. She worked as a Research Assistant in Gansu Academy of Agricultural Science, China from 1998 to 2004. In 2005, she did the Doctoral Foundation course in University of New England. After receiving the scholarship from La Trobe University and Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre (Cotton CRC) in 2006, she carried out research on P acquisition characteristics of cotton plants. Wang was awarded a PhD degree in 2010. She was a recipient of the 2011 Nancy Millis PhD Excellence Prize in the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University.

Since 2010, Wang worked as a research Officer (part-time) at La Trobe University until she was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2012. She is currently working on a project titled “Linking soil acidification with carbon dynamics in Australian agroecosystems”.

Recent Publications

Book chapter

  1.  Wang X, C Tang, CN Guppy, PWG Sale (2012) Phosphorus acquisition characteristics of cotton plants. In: Cotton: Cultivation, Varieties and Uses (Eds. B Giuliano and EJ Vinci), Nova Science Publishers. 16pp. (in press). (invited)

In refereed journals

  1.  Wang X, CN Guppy, L Watson, PWG Saleand C Tang (2011) Availability of sparingly soluble phosphorus sources to cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and white lupin (Lupinus albus L.) with different forms of nitrogen as evaluated by a 32P isotopic dilution technique. Plant and Soil 348:85-98.
  2.  Wang X, C Tang, CN Guppy, PWG Sale (2010) Cotton, wheat and white lupin differ in phosphorus acquisition from sparingly soluble sources. Environmental and Experimental Botany 69:267–272
  3. Wang X, C Tang, CN Guppy, PWG Sale (2009) The role of hydraulic lift and subsoil P placement in P uptake of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Plant and Soil 325: 263-275
  4. Wang X, C Tang, CN Guppy and PWG Sale (2008) Phosphorus acquisition characteristics of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and white lupin (Lupinus albus ) under P deficient conditions. Plant and Soil 312, 117-128
  5.  Wang X, DW Lester, CN Guppy, PV Lockwood and C Tang (2007) Changes in phosphorus fractions at various soil depths following long-term P fertilizer application on a Black Vertosol from southeastern Queensland. Australian Journal of Soil Research 45, 524-532

Conference presentations

  1.  Wang X, L Watson, CN Guppy, PWG Sale, C Tang (2010) Dynamics and fate of different P sources in three contrasting soil types as determined by P fractionation and isotopic labeling techniques. 4th International Symposium on Phosphorus Dynamics in the Soil-Plant Continuum. Beijing, China.
  2.  Wang X, C Tang, CN Guppy, PWG Sale (2010) Phosphorus acquisition characteristics of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) plant: a review. Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of Soil Science; Soil Solutions for a Changing World; ISBN 978-0-646-53783-2; Published on DVD; http://www.iuss.org; Brisbane, Australia: IUSS; 1-6 August 2010. (refereed)
  3. Wang X, C Tang, C Guppy and PW Sale (2007) Phosphorus acquisition by cotton, wheat and white lupin under P stress. 2nd International Rhizosphere Conference, Montpellier, France.
  4. Wang X, D Lester, C Guppy, PV Lockwood and C Tang (2006) Changes in phosphorus fractions at various soil depths after long-term continuous cultivation on a black vertosol from South East Queensland. p36, Australian Society of Soil Science Conference, Adelaide.

Research projects

Linking soil acidification with carbon dynamics in Australian agroecosystmes (Funded by Australian Research Council)