Plant Eco-physiology
Agroecology

 Graduated from Northwest Agricultural University in December 1981 and got Bachelor of Agronomy. 
 Graduated from Northwest Agricultural University and got the Master degree of Agronomy in December 1984.
 Graduated from Northwest Agricultural University and got Ph.D. in December 1998.

Assistant Researcher: Institute of Soil and Water conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Jan.1988-Aug.1993.
Associate Research: Institute of Soil and Water conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Sept.1993-Aug.1998
Supervise of postgraduate students: Institute of Soil and Water conservation, Northwest A&F University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, 1995-now.
Deputy director: Changwu Agro-ecological Experiment Station on Loess Plateau, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Ecosystem Research Net (CERN), 1997-2002, Ansai Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Ecosystem Research Net (CERN), 2002-2010.
Research Prof.: Institute of Soil and Water conservation, Northwest A&F University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Sept.1998-now.

Wined the first prize of Sci-tech. Progress of Chinese Academy of Sciences,1992.
Wined the second and first award of Sci-tech. Progress of Shaanxi province in 1997 and 2000.
Wined the first prize of natural science of Chinese Academy of Sciences,in 2001.
Wined the third award of Sci-tech. Progress of Shaanxi province, 2002.
Wined the first prizeof Sci-tech of Shaanxi province in 2003.
Wined the second prizeof Sci-tech of Shaanxi province both in 2005 and 2010.

   

1. Liang YL, Chen ZJ, Xu FL. The cropping system for facility agriculture on Loess Plateau [J]. Chinese Journal of Eco-Agiculture. 2006, 14(2): 189-190.
2. Zhai S, Liang YL, Wang JY. Effect of soil surface mulching on the growth and physiological characteristics of grafted and non-grafted cucumbers in solar greenhouse [J].Chinese Journal of applied ecology. 2006, 17(6): 1039-1044.
3. Zhou MJ, Liang YL, Chen JR. Effects of soil covering on solar greenhouse water use efficiency and soil nitrate N and available phosphorus contents [J]. Chinese Journal of applied ecology. 2007, 18(6): 1393-1396.
4. Zhai S, Liang YL, Zhang XS, et al. Effects of soil mulching on cucumber quality, water use efficiency and soil environment in greenhouse. Transactions of the CSAE, 2008, 24(3):65-71
5. Liang YL, Xiong YM, Zhou MJ. The response of cowpea yield and quality to soil moisture and nitrogen in solar green house [J]. Soil and water conservation. 2008, 22(5): 142-145.
6. Zhou MJ, Liang YL, He LN. Influence of soil mulching approaches on WUE, fruit quality and nitrate distribution of capsicum [J]. Plant nutrition and fertilizer science. 2009, 15(1): 158-163.
7. Wei ZX, Liang YL, Jing SGH. Effects of different water and fertilizer supply on cucumber soil nutrient content, enzyme activity, and microbial diversity [J]. Chinese Journal of applied ecology. 2009, 20(7): 1678-1684.
8. Wei ZX, Liang YL, Shan TZ. Relation of soil microbial diversity to tomato yield and quality under different soil water conditions and fertilizations [J]. Chinese Journal of plant ecology. 2009,33(3): 580-586.
9. Huang ML, Liang YL, Zhou MJ. The soil seed bank characteristics in cropland under different conservation tillage and fertilization regimes in Loess Hilly and Gully region [J].Acta ecologica sinica. 2009,29(7): 3987-3994.
10. Chen C, Liang YL, Wu RJ. A Preliminary study on the change of soil organic carbon and cycling of the slope land in the Loess Hilly-Gully areas [J]. natutal resources. 2010,25(4): 668-676.
11. Wei ZX, Liang YL, Chen C. Physiological characteristics of leaf growth and yield of cucumber under different watering and fertilizer coupling treatments in green house [J]. 2010(3): 69-74.
12. Peng Q, Liang YL, Chen C. The response of pepper membrane lipid peroxidation and protective enzyme to the light intensity and soil moisture [J]. Transactions of the CSAE, 2010 (13): 115-121
13. Zhu YL, Liang YL, Hao WL. Responses of fruit quality, leaf protective enzyme systems of tomato to soil water and fertilization [J]. Plant nutrition and fertilizer science. 2011,17(1):137-146.
14. Liang YL, Lin XJ, Wei ZX, Inosako. K., Yamada. S. Bai YM, Inoue.M. The correlation between microenvironment and tomato fruit quality in greenhouse. The International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet 2011), proceedings.IEEE,Vol.2: 1779-1782.
15. Zhu JJ, Liang YL, and Tremblay Nicolas. Responses of Corn (Zea mays L.) N Status Indicators to Nitrogen Rates and SoilMoisture.ACTA AGRONOMICA SINICA 2011, 37(7): 1259-1265.
16. Hao WL, Liang YL, Zhu YL. Production efficiency and soil nutrient characteristics in food-vegetable rotation systems [J]. Bulletin of soil and water conservation. 2011,31(2): 46-51.
17. Liang YL, Chen C, Xue QW, Lin XJ, Peng Q. Long-term soil organic carbon and crop yield dynamics on cropland in hilly and gully areas of Loess Plateau. Juornal of Agronomy,10(2):40-47,2011.
18. Liang YL, Wu X, Zhu JJ, Zhou MJ, Peng Q. Response of hot pepper (Capsicum annum L.) to mulching practices under planted greenhouse condition. Agric. Water Manage. November 2011, Vol.99,(1):111-120.
19. Lin XJ, Liang YL and Wei ZX. Hysteresis of soil temperature under different soil moisture and fertilizer in the solar greenhouse conditions. African Journal of Biotechnology. 2011,10(63):13729-13734.
20. Liang YL, Lin XJ. Root Characteristics and Yield of Greenhouse-grown Cucumber in Continuously Cropped Soil. 2012，Advanced Materials Research Vol. 422， 673-677. 
21. Zhu JJ, Liang YL, Zhu YL, Hao WL, Lin XJ, Wu Xing, LUO AR. The interactive effects of water and fertilizer on photosynthetic capacity and yield in tomato Plants. Australia Juornal of Crop Sciences AJCS 6(2):200-209 (2012).
22. Liang YL, Lin XJ, Satoshi Yamada, Zhou MJ, Mitsuhiro Inoue & Koji Inosako. Cucumber Productivity and Soil Degradation in Recropping System in Greenhouse. 2012，Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 43:13，1743-1748.
23. Zhu JJ, Peng Q, Liang YL, Wu X and Hao WL. leaf Gas Exchange， Chlorophyll Fluorescence，and Fruit Yield in Hot Pepper (Capsicum anmuum L.) Growth under Different Shade and Soil Moisture During the Fruit Growth Stage. Journal of Intergrative Agriculture, 2012,11(6):927-937
24．Zhu JJ, Tremblay N., Liang YL. Comparing SPAD and atLEAF values for chlorophyll assessment in different species. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 2012, 92: 645–648.
25. Bai CH, Liang YL, Zhu YL, Ge YX, Lin XJ, Jia WY. The temporal and spatial variation of soil respiration in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) agro-ecosystems in Northwest of China. Australia Juornal of Crop Sciences AJCS 6(11):1565-1571 (2012).
26. Bai CH, Liang YL. Malcolm John Hawkesford Identification of QTL associated with root morphology and their correlation with plant height in wheat- Journal of Experimental Botany. Vol.64, No.6,pp 1745-1753,2013.
27. Liang YL, Luo AR, Mu L. (2014). Policies and measures of Chinese local government on Grain-for-Green Policy and desertification control. In: Tsunekawa A, Liu G, Yamanaka N, Du S (eds) Restoration and Development of the Degraded Loess Plateau, China (Ecological Research Monographs). Springer, Tokyo. Pp 161-172.
28. Mu L, Liang YL, Xue QW, Chen C, Lin XJ. Using the DNDC model to compare soil organic carbon dynamics under different crop rotation and fertilizer strategies. Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research (SJAR 4895-659/13), 2014, Vol. 12 No.1.265-276.
29. Mu L, Liang YL, Zhang CW, Wang KF,Shi GH. Soil respiration of hot pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) under different mulching practices in a greenhouse, including controlling factors in China. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B–Soil & Plant Science,2014.Vol. 64, No. 1, 85–95.
30. Mu L, Liang YL, Han RL. Assessments of the soil organic carbon sink in a project for the conversion of farmland to forest land: a case study in Zichang county, Shaanxi, China. PLOS ONE,2014 , 9(4):1-9.
31. Liang YL‍‍, Bai CH, Mu L, Zhou MJ.Soil respiration in cucumber field under six crop rotations in solar greenhouse. Scientia Agrico‍‍la. 2014 v.71,No.4, 337-341.

‍‍32. Zhu SM, Liang YL, Gao DK, et al. Spraying foliar selenium fertilizer on quality of table grape (Vitis vinifera, L.) from different source varieties [J]. Scientia Horticulturae, 2017, 218:87-94.‍‍

‍‍33. Zhu SM, Liang YL, An XJ, et al.Changes in sugar content and related enzyme activities in table grape (Vitis vinifera L.) in response to foliar selenium fertilizer[J].Journal of the Science of Food & Agriculture, 2017, 97: 4094–4102.

‍‍34. An XJ, Li WP, Liang YL, et al.Fruit quality components of balsam pear (Momordica charantia L.) and soil respiration in response to soil m‍‍oisture under two soil conditions.Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization.2018,12:710-720.

35.An XJ, Liang YL, Gao DK, Zhu SM, Kong KC. Response of health-promoting bioactive compounds and related enzyme activities of table grape (Vitis vinifera L.) to deficit irrigation in greenhouse[J]. Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology: 2018, 1-12.

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Research projects directed: 
Chinese Academy of Sciences cooperation project: The integration and demonstration of the key safe production technology on the facility of green food and vegetables of Ningxia (2011-2013). 
The “twelve fifth” National Science and Technology Support Program: The integration and demonstration of the key high efficiency of agriculture production technology in Hilly and Gully areas (2011BAD31B05-4, 2011-2015). 
Strategic Priority technology Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences: study on Carbon sequestration potential and rate of northwest farmland soil (XDA05050504, 2011-2015). 
The “twelve fifth” National Science and Technology Support Program: The key technology research and demonstration of suburb high-yield,high-quality and high-efficiency economic forest production in Xi ’an(2014BAD14B006, 2014-2017).

1992.9-1993.3, went to Australia (CSRIO, Division of Plant Industry) to conduct cooperation research about improving crop water use efficiency as a visitor.
1996.10-1996.12, went to Germany (Justus-Liebig-University) to conduct short-term training as a senior visiting scholar.
2000.4-2000.10, went to USA (USDA-ARS, National Resources Conservation Center) to conduct cooperation research as a senior visiting scholar.

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