Biography

Ph. D. , Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Southwest University with a bachelor's degree in agronomy in July 2008; and was awarded Master's degree in 2011 and doctoral degree in 2014 after finish his study in Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research is mainly focus on soil metal pollution and phytoremediation, and the toxicity of soil pollutants to soil fauna. His studies have found that Cu/Al has adverse effect on the growth of plant Sedum plumbizincicola, a Zn/Cd hyperaccumulator, and the plant uptake of Cd; revealed the characteristics of desorption - transformation of soil Cd and plant Cd uptake through continuous phytoextraction experiments conducted in the typical contaminated soils using S. plumbizincicola; elucidated the promoting effect of rhizosphere micro-area acidification of S. plumbizincicola  on soil Cd availability; and explored the mechanism of chemical and/or bioaugmentation (soil fauna) technology on the phytoextraction efficiency of S. plumbizincicola to soil Cd. 

Research Areas

[1] Soil metal pollution and phytoremediation

[2] Ecological assessment and toxicity of soil pollution

Public Duties

[1] Prize of Science and Technology Award of Soil Society of China

Selected Publications

1. Zhou Jiawen, Li Zhu#, Zhou Tong, Xin Zaijun, Wu Longhua#, Luo Yongming, Christie Peter. Aluminum toxicity decreases the phytoextraction capability by cadmium/zinc hyperaccumulator Sedum plumbizincicola in acid soils, Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 711: 134591

2. Wang Zinan, Jia Mingyun, Li Zhu#, Liu Hongyan, Christie Peter, Wu Longhua. Acid buffering capacity of four contrasting metal-contaminated calcareous soil types: Changes in soil metals and relevance to phytoextraction. Chemosphere 2020, 256: 127045.

3. Fan Yiqing, Li Zhu#, Zhou Tong, Zhou Shoubiao, Wu Longhua, Luo Yongming, Christie Peter, Phytoextraction potential of soils highly polluted with cadmium using the cadmium/zinc hyperaccumulator Sedum plumbizincicola, International Journal of Phytoremediation, 2019, 8: 733-741.

4. Sun Xi, Li Zhu#, Wu Longhua#, Luo Yongming, Christie Peter, Fornara, Dario A., Root-induced soil acidification and cadmium mobilization in the rhizosphere of Sedum plumbizincicola: evidence from a high-resolution imaging study. Plant and Soil 2019, 436: 267-282.

5. Li Zhu, Wu Longhua#, Luo Yongming, Christie Peter, Changes in metal mobility assessed by EDTA kinetic extraction in three polluted soils after repeated phytoremediation using a cadmium/zinc hyperaccumulator. Chemosphere 2018, 194, 432-440.

6. Li Zhu, Jia Mingyun, Christie Peter, Ali Shafaqat, Wu, Longhua#, Use of a hyperaccumulator and biochar to remediate an acid soil highly contaminated with trace metals and/or oxytetracycline. Chemosphere 2018, 204, 390-397.

7. Li Zhu, Ma Tingting, Yuan Cheng, Hou Jingyu, Wang Qinning, Wu Longhua#, Christie Peter, Luo Yongming, Metal contamination status of the soil-plant system and effects on the soil microbial community near a rare metal recycling smelter. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2016, 23, (17), 17625-17634.

8. Li Zhu, Jia Mingyun, Wu Longhua#, Christie Peter; Luo Yongming, Changes in metal availability, desorption kinetics and speciation in contaminated soils during repeated phytoextraction with the Zn/Cd hyperaccumulator Sedum plumbizincicola. Environmental Pollution 2016, 209, 123-131.

9. Li Zhu, Wu Longhua#, Zhang Hao, Luo Yongming, Christie Peter, Effects of soil drying and wetting-drying cycles on the availability of heavy metals and their relationship to dissolved organic matter. Journal of Soils and Sediments 2015, 15, (7), 1510-1519.

10. Li Zhu, Wu Longhua#, Luo Yongming, Christie Peter, Dynamics of plant metal uptake and metal changes in whole soil and soil particle fractions during repeated phytoextraction. Plant and Soil 2014, 374, (1-2), 857-869.

11. Li Zhu, Wu Longhua#, Hu Pengjie, Luo Yongming, Zhang Hao, Christie Peter, Repeated phytoextraction of four metal-contaminated soils using the cadmium/zinc hyperaccumulator Sedum plumbizincicola. Environmental Pollution 2014, 189, 176-183.

12. Li Zhu, Wu Longhua#, Hu Pengjie, Luo Yongming, Christie Peter, Copper changes the yield and cadmium/zinc accumulation and cellular distribution in the cadmium/zinc hyperaccumulator Sedum plumbizincicola. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2013, 261, 332-341.

Representive Projetcs

[1] National Natural Science Foundation of China, 4197071548, studies on synergistic enhancement and mechanism of hyperaccumulators in remediation of Cd contaminated soil by typical soil animals, 202001-202312, 610000 ¥

[2] National Natural Science Foundation of China , 41501348, studies on phytoavailability of Cd and Zn in different soil types and their chemical mechanisms in solid-liquid and rhizosphere, 201601-20181200, 200000 ¥