Biography

Associate professor, born in Zhang Bei County, Hebei province. In 2009, he graduated from Nanjing Agricultural University and got his PhD. In 2017-2018，worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern Mississippi in the United States. He is now member and secretary of the Committee of Soil Ecology of China Soil Society and director of Jiangsu Soil Society. It is mainly engaged in the soil microbial ecological mechanism of crop soil-borne diseases and its control technology. He has funded by over more than 10 projects such as the sub-projects of the National Key research and development plan and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 40 papers and participated in the compilation of one book. It has obtained 15 national invention patents. Won a second prize of agricultural Technology popularization Achievement of ministry of Agriculture.

Research Areas

[1] Relationship between soil microbial ecology and plant disease

[2] Effect soil health and biological factors on soil-borne disease

Public Duties

[1] Member and secretary of the Committee of Soil Ecology of China Soil Society

[2] Director of Jiangsu Soil Society

Awards and Honours

National Agriculture, animal husbandry and Fishery Harvest Award second prize of achievement of Agro-technical popularization

Selected Publications

[1] Li Jiangang, Cao Jing, Sun Feifei, Niu Dongdong, Yan Fang, Liu Hongxia, Guo Jianhua. (2011). Control of Tobacco mosaic virus by PopW as a result of induced resistance in tobacco under greenhouse and field conditions. Phytopathology 101:1202-1208.

[2]Li Jiangang, Dong Yuanhua. (2013). Effect of a rock dust amendment on disease severity of tomato bacterial wilt. Antonie Leeuw Int J G. 103:11-22. DOI 10.1007/s10482-012-9781-4

[3]Li Jiangang, Jiang Zhiqiang, Xu Liuping, Sun Feifei, Guo Jianhua. (2008). Characterization of chitinase secreted by Bacillus cereusstrain CH2 and evaluation of its efficacy against Verticillium wilt of eggplant. BioControl. 53:931–944. DOI 10.1007/s10526-007-9144-7

[4]Li Jiangang, Liu Hongxia, Cao Jing, Chen Lifeng, Gu Chun, Allen Caitilyn, Guo Jianhua. (2010). PopW of Ralstonia solanacearum, a new two-domain harpin targeting the plant cell wall. Mol Plant Pathol. 11(3): 371-381.

[5]Li Jiangang, Ren Gaidi, Jia Zhongjun, Dong Yuanhua. (2014). Composition and activity of rhizosphere microbial communities associated with healthy and diseased greenhouse tomatoes. Plant Soil. 380:337–347. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-014-2097-6

[6]Li Jiangang, Shen Mingchong, Hou Jinfeng, Li Ling, Wu Junxia Dong Yuanhua. (2016). Effect of different levels of nitrogen on rhizosphere bacterial community structure in intensive monoculture of greenhouse lettuce.Sci Rep 6, 25305

[7]Li Jiangang, Wan Xin, Liu Xiaoxiao, Chen Yong, Slaughter Lindsey, Weindorf David, Dong Yuanhua. (2019). Changes in soil physical and chemical characteristics in intensively cultivated greenhouse vegetable fields in North China. Soil Tillage Research 195 104366  

[8]Li Jiangang, Mavrodi Olga, Hou Jinfeng, Blackmon Chazden, Babiker Ebrahiem#, Mavrodi Dmitri (2020) Comparative Analysis of Rhizosphere Microbiomes of Southern Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.), Darrow’s Blueberry (V. darrowii Camp), and Rabbiteye Blueberry (V. virgatum Aiton). Front. Microbiol. 11:370.doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00370

[9]Li Jiangang, Mavrodi Dmitri, Dong Yuanhua. (2020). Effect of rock dust-amended compost on the soil properties, soil microbial activity, and fruit production in an apple orchard from the Jiangsu province of China. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, DOI:10.1080/03650340.2020.1795136

Representive Projetcs

[1] The Subprojects of the National Key Research and development Program

[2] The National Natural Science Foundation Program

[3] The STS Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

[4] The Key Science and Technology Support Program of Jiangsu Province

[5] The Key Research and development Program of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region