我于2017年5月获得澳大利亚昆士兰大学（The University of Queensland，世界大学排名49位）哲学博士学位，获得该校国际旅行奖，研究方向为逆境条件下植物-微生物相互作用，旨在揭示植物与土壤微生物的互作机制。

（1）通过多组学和微生物培养技术，我揭示了小麦等作物根系微生物群、致病真菌以及植物微生物群在感染镰刀菌根腐病时的作用机制（Liu et al., 2021 New Phytol 高被引；Liu et al., 2023, Plant Soil；Wen et al., 2023 Nat Commun高被引；Batista et al., 2023 Soil Biol Biochem；Liu et al., 2022 J Sustain Agri Environ；Qiu et al., 2022 Environ Microbiol；Liu et al., 2017 Front Microbiol 高被引-Nature 论文引用）。

（2）提出植物-微生物相互作用新型理论框架，揭示植物与其共生微生物群在逆境下的协同效应，为逆境条件下植物-微生物互作研究提供了重要理论依据（Liu et al., 2024 Nature Plants; Zhang et al., 2023 Trends Microbiol；Singh et al., 2023; Nat Rev Microbiol高被引; Liu et al., 2019, 2020a,b Trends Plant Science高被引；Liu et al., 2019 Trends Ecol Evol）。

（3）提出通过向盐碱土壤添加1-氨基环丙烷-1-羧酸（ACC）提高植物耐盐性。这一方法显著改善了土壤质量和植物产量，为盐碱地农业管理提供了实用工具，助力可持续农业发展（Liu et al., 2019 Sci Rep 及相关报道《Lifting fertility in saline soils》、《Discovery unleashes growth in salty soils》等）。我的研究还涉及免耕农业对土壤健康影响，以及Stingless Bee肠道微生物与宿主之间互作用，为农业和养蜂业提供科学建议（Liu et al., 2016 Soil Till Res；Liu et al., 2016 Geoderma；Liu et al., 2016 Biol Fert Soil；Hall et al., 2021 FEMS Microb Ecol；Liu et al., 2023 J Invertebr Pathol；Liu et al., 2023 iMeta）。

  截至目前，我发表论文56篇(52篇SCI收录)，被引4,400余次，H指数27（谷歌学术），领域加权引用影响指数FWCI 4.13，高于微生物学领域平均水平1.0。研究成果发表在 New Phytologist （2）、PloS Biology, Nature Review Microbiology、Nature Plants、Nature Communications、Ecology Letters、Microbiome（2）、Trends in Ecology and Evolution、Trends in Plant Science（4）等期刊上。目前担任Crop Health（浙江大学主办）和Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment（全球可持续农业与环境倡议中心主办）等期刊编委，是Nature Microbiology、Nature Ecology & Evolution、Nature Food等50几种国际期刊长期审稿人。

• 主持科技部重点研发计划“重要农作物微生物组及精准干预”课题；

• 主持南京农业大学高层次人才引进项目。

附论文列表：

• 2025

• Characterizing the microbiome recruited by the endangered plant Firmiana danxiaensis in phosphorus-deficient acidic soil

• "Frontiers in Microbiology" 

• Jiayu Li, Guangda Tang, Hongwei Liu, Xiaoying Luo, Juntao Wang

• 2025

• Integrating “cry for help” strategies for sustainable agriculture

• "Trends in Plant Science"  Extended review of Microbiome-mediated stress tolerance in plants (2020)

• Hongwei Liu*

• 2025

• Bio-organic fertilizer enhances soil mineral solubilization, microbial community stability, and fruit quality in an 8-year watermelon continuous cropping system

• "Biology and Fertility of Soils" 

• Yaoyao tong; Xianqing Zheng; Hongwei Liu; Haoqing Zhang; Yangwu Deng; Ming Chen; Weiguang Lv; Jianping Chen*; Tida Ge; Zhaofeng Yuan

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• 2024

• Host genotype‑specific plant microbiome correlates to wheat disease resistance

• "Biology and Fertility of Soils" 

• Chuanfa Wu, Hongwei Liu, Luyao Lai, Zhechang Mei, Peng Cai, Haoqing Zhang, Jian Yang, Jianping Chen, Tida Ge*

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• 2024

• Incorporating microbial metrics improves soil health and yield predictions

• "Preprint" (soil health/pathogens/cotton).

• Juntao Wang, Bruna D Batista, Hongwei Liu, Simranjit Kaur, Catriona A Macdonald, Zhi-Guang Qiu, Pankaj Trivedi, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Chao Xiong, Jinsong Liang, Michael Bange, Brajesh K Singh

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• 2024

• Volatile-mediated interspecific plant interaction promotes PGPRs colonization via induced shifts in root exudation

• "Microbiome". (Beneficial microbes). 中文版 Video Spotlights in Trends Plant Sci about VOC-mediated priming; See Review 

• Xingang Zhou, Jingyu Zhang, Jibo Shi , Muhammad Khashi u Rahman, Danmei Gao, Hongwei Liu, Fengzhi Wu, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Zhong Wei*

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• 2024

• Combating wheat yellow mosaic virus through microbial interactions and hormone pathway modulations

• "Microbiome". (Beneficial microbes/"Cry for help"/Priming effects) 中文版1；中文版2；Video  See Review

• Fangyan Wang, Haoqing Zhang*, Hongwei Liu, Chuanfa Wu, Yi Wan, Lifei Zhu, Jian Yang, Peng Cai, Jianping Chen, Tida Ge*

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• 2024

• Harnessing co-evolutionary interactions between plant and Streptomyces for combatting drought stress

• "Nature Plants". (Streptomyces spp. are the King of combating/withstanding drought stress in C3, C4 plants) 中文版1;中文版2; Nature Plants系列; Twitter; Harvard University.

• Hongwei Liu*, Jiayu Li, Brajesh K. Singh*

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• 2024

• Complementary effects of above- and belowground biodiversity on ecosystem functions across global grasslands

• "Plos Biology". Related primer; 中文版1 (Microbial diversity/ecosystem functions)

• Catarina S. C. Martins, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Ramesha H. Jayaramaiah, Jun-Tao Wang, Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Hongwei Liu, Dongxue Tao, Fernando T. Maestre, Peter B. Reich, Brajesh K. Singh

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• 2024

• Root exudate-mediated plant–microbiome interactions determine plant health during disease infection

• "Agriculture Ecosystem & Environment". 中文简版

• Yaoyao Tong, Xianqing Zheng, Yajun Hu, Jialing Wu, Hongwei Liu, Yangwu Deng, Weiguang Lv, Huaiying Yao, Jianping Chen, Tida Ge*

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• 2024

• Streptomyces-triggered coordination between rhizosphere microbiomes and plant transcriptome enables watermelon Fusarium wilt resistance

• "Microbial Biotechnology". (Priming effects by Streptomyces for combatting plant pathogens)

• Anhui Ge, Qiyun Li, Hongwei Liu, Zhengkun Zhang, Yang Lu, Zhihuai Liang, Brajesh K. Singh, Lili Han, Jifang Xiang, Jiling Xiao, Siyi Liu, Limei Zhang*

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• 2024

• Committed commentary "Microbiome-conferred herbicides resistance" 中文简版

• "New Phytologist". (Cry for help/plant microbiome evolution under stress). Highlight from the Journal via Twitter; Virtual issue collection: The chemical language of plant–microbe–microbe associations (edited by Stéphane Hacquard,  Francis M. Martin).

• Fengge Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Zhong Wei, Hongwei Liu*

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• 2023

• Biotic and abiotic responses to soil-borne pathogens and environmental predictors of soil health

• "Soil Biology and Biochemistry". 中文版

• BrunaD. Batista, Juntao Wang, Hongwei Liu, Simranjit Kaur, CatrionaA. Macdonald, Zhiguang Qiu, Pankaj Trivedi, Manuel Delgado Baquerizo, Chao Xiong, Jinsong Liang, Michael Bange, Brajesh K. Singh*

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• 2023

• Plant functional groups shape biodiversity-soil functions relationships under climate change

• "Preprint". 

• Ramesha Jayaramaiah, Catarina Martins, Eleonora Egidi, Catriona Macdonald, Jun-Tao Wang, Hongwei Liu, Peter Reich, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Brajesh Singh

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• 2023

• Vegetation type, not the legacy of warming, modifies the response of microbial functional genes and greenhouse gas fluxes to drought in Oro-Arctic and alpine regions

• "FEMS Microbiology Ecology". 

• Ellen L Fry*, Deborah Ashworth, Kimberley AJ Allen, Nathalie Isabelle Chardon, Christian Rixen, Mats P Björkman, Robert G Björk, Thomas Stålhandske, Mathias Molau, Brady Locke-King, Isabelle Cantillon, Catriona McDonald, Hongwei Liu, Franciska T De Vries, Nick J Ostle, Brajesh K Singh, Richard D Bardgett

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• 2023

• Evidence of distinct response of soil viral community to a plant infection and the disease pathobiome.

• "Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment". 

• Zhen-Zhen Yan, Juntao Wang, Jinsong Liang, Bruna D. Batista, Hongwei Liu, Chao Xiong, Simranjit Kaur, Catriona A Macdonald, Brajesh K. Singh*

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• 2023

• Traits-based approach: leveraging genome size in plant-microbe interactions

• "Trends in Microbiology". 中文版本 (Genome size as the Master of microbial traits)

• Haiyang Zhang*, Hongwei Liu, Xingguo Han

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• 2023

• Microbial inoculants with higher capacity to colonise soils improved wheat drought tolerance

• "Microbial Biotechnology". 中文版 (Colonisation is required for lasting microbial benefits)

• Jiayu Li, Juntao Wang, Hongwei Liu, Catriona A. Macdonald, Brajesh K. Singh*

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• 2023

• Seed biopriming for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem restoration

• "Microbial Biotechnology". Authors contributed equally. (Strong start fosters plant stress resilience)

• Prachi Singh, Anukool Vaishnav, Hongwei Liu, Chao Xiong, Harikesh Bahadur Singh, Brajesh K Singh*

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• 2023

• Tapping the rhizosphere metabolites for the prebiotic control of soil-borne bacterial wilt disease

• "Nature Communications" News report associated. Nature Sustainable Agriculture collection. (Prebiotics/probiotics)

• Web of Science highly cited (0.1%).

• Tao Wen, Penghao Xie, Hongwei Liu, Ting Liu, Mengli Zhao, Shengdie Yang, Guoqing Niu, Lauren Hale, Brajesh K. Singh, George A. Kowalchuk, Qirong Shen & Jun Yuan*

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• 2023

• Effects of biostimulant application on soil biological and physicochemical properties: a field study

• "Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment". (Evidence of biofertilizers in field conditions)

• Jenendra Wadduwage, Hongwei Liu, Eleonora Edigi, Brajesh K. Singh, Catriona A. Macdonald* 

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• 2023

• Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward Co-first author 共同一作

• "Nature Review Microbiology" IF=69.2

• Global change series. Authors contributed equally. 中文简版1，中文简版2.  

• Web of Science highly cited (1%) and hot paper (0.1%); Cited:480

• Brajesh K. Singh*, Manuel Delgado Baquerizo, Eleonora Egidi, Emilio Guirado, Jan Leach, Hongwei Liu, Pankaj Trivedi

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• 2023

• Fungal genome size and composition reflect ecological strategies along soil fertility gradients

• "Ecology Letters" 中文简版

• Haiyang Zhang*, Andrew Bissett, Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros, Hongwei Liu, Jeff R. Powell

• 2023

• Crop microbiome responses to pathogen colonisation regulate the host plant defence

• "Plant and Soil"

• Hongwei Liu*, Juntao Wang, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Haiyang Zhang, Jiayu Li, Brajesh Singh (*Correspondence)

• 2023

• Microbial diversity in stingless bee gut is linked to host wing size and influenced by the environment

• "Journal of Invertebrate Pathology" (The stingless bee wing size reflects the host gut microbial diversity)

• Hongwei Liu*, Mark A. Hall, Megan Halcroft, Laura E. Brettell, Juntao Wang, Scott Nacko, Robert Spooner-Hart, James M Cook, Markus Riegler, Brajesh Singh (*Correspondence)

• 2023

• Warmer and drier ecosystems select for smaller bacterial genomes in global soils

• "iMeta" Video presentation available; 中文版www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBau3UusIo&t=4s. New IF=23.7.

• Elevated temperatures lead to the occurrence of small size bacteria under climate change.

• Hongwei Liu, Haiyang Zhang*, Jeff Powell, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Juntao Wang, Brajesh Singh

• 2023

• Emerging pathways for engineering the rhizosphere microbiome for optimal plant health

• Web of Science highly cited (1%). 

• Co-first author 共同一作

• "Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry"

• Cover page paper

• Shengdie Yang, Hongwei Liu, Penghao Xie, Tao Wen, Qirong Shen, Jun Yuan*

• 2022

• Synthetic community improves crop performance and alters rhizosphere microbial communities

• "Journal of sustainable agriculture and environment"

• Simranjit Kaur, Eleonora Egidi, Zhiguang Qiu, Catriona A. Macdonald, Jay Prakash Verma, Pankaj Trivedi, Juntao Wang, Hongwei Liu and Brajesh K. Singh*

• 2022

• Response of the plant core microbiome to Fusarium oxysporum infection and identification of the pathobiome

• "Environmental Microbiology"

• Zhiguang Qiu, Jay Prakash Verma, Hongwei Liu, Juntao Wang, Bruna Bastia, Simranjit Kaur, Catriona McDonald, Pankaj Trivedi, Tim Weaver, Warren Contay, Brajesh Kumar Singh*

• 2022

• Application of microbial inoculants significantly enhances crop productivity: A meta‐analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020

• "Journal of sustainable agriculture and environment"

• Jiayu Li, Juntao Wang, Hongwei Liu, Catriona A. Macdonald, Brajesh K. Singh*

• 2022

• Sustainable agricultural practices contribute significantly to one health

• "Journal of sustainable agriculture and environment"

• Zhenzhen Yan, Chao Xiong, Hongwei Liu, Brajesh Singh*

• 2021

• Effective colonisation by a bacterial synthetic community promotes plant growth and alters soil microbial community

• "Journal of sustainable agriculture and environment"

• Top downloaded and highly cited article of the journal

• Hongwei Liu*, Galaxy Qiu, Jun Ye, Jay Prakash Verma, Jiayu Li, Brajesh K. Singh (*Correspondence).

• 2021

• Phytomicrobiome for promoting sustainable agriculture and food security: Opportunities, challenges, and solutions

• "Microbiological Research"

• Gowardhan Kumar Chouhan, Jay PrakashVerma, Durgesh Kumar Jaiswal ArpanMukherjee, Saurabh Singh, Arthur Prudênciode Araujo Pereira, Hongwei Liu, Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah, Brajesh K. Singh

• 2020

• Temporal changes in the microbiome of stingless bee foragers following colony relocation

• "FEMS Microbial Ecology"

• MA Hall*, LE Brettell, H Liu, S Nacko, R Spooner-Hart, M Riegler, JM Cook

• 2020

• Growth-promoting bacteria double eicosapentaenoic acid yield in microalgae

• "Bioresource Technology"

• Bingli Liu, Eladl E Eltanahy, Hongwei Liu, Elvis T Chua, Skye R Thomas-Hall, Taylor J Wass, Kehou Pan, Peer M Schenk*

• 2020

• Linking the phyllosphere microbiome to plant health

• "Trends in Plant Science" （中文版）（cited 198）

• Hongwei Liu*, Laura E Brettell, Brajesh Singh

• 2020

• Evidence for the plant recruitment of beneficial microbes to suppress soil‐borne pathogen

• "New Phytologist" （中文版本1； 中文版本2）（cited 288）

• Top cited article of the journal 期刊高被引

• Web of Science highly cited (1%) and hot paper (0.1%)

• Hongwei Liu, Jiayu Li, Lilia C Carvalhais, Cassandra D Percy, Jay Prakash Verma, Peer M Schenk, Brajesh K Singh*

• 2020

• Microbiome-mediated stress tolerance in plants 

• "Trends in Plant Science" (中文版 1；中文版2；中文版3) （cited 509）

• Top cited article of the journal (2020-2023) 期刊高被引

• Web of science highly cited (1%) and hot paper (0.1%)

• Best of 2020: Trends in Plant Science 期刊2020最佳

• Hongwei Liu, Laura Brettel, Zhiguang Qiu, Brajesh Singh*

• 2019

• Eco-holobionts: a new concept to identify drivers of host-associated microorganisms

• "Environmental Microbiology"

• Brajesh Singh*, Hongwei Liu,  Pankaj Trivedi.

• 2019

• An ecological loop: host microbiomes across multitrophic interactions

• "Trends in Ecology and Evolution" （中文版）（cited 122）

• Hongwei Liu, Catriona Macdonald, James Cook, Ian Anderson, Brajesh Singh*

• 2019

• Grazing regulates the spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial communities within ecological networks

• "Ecosystems"

• David J. Eldridge*, Samantha K. Travers, James Val, Jun-Tao Wang, Hongwei Liu, Ian Oliver, Brajesh K. Singh, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

• 2019

• New frontiers in agriculture productivity: optimised microbial inoculants and in situ microbiome engineering

• "Biotechnology Advances" (cited 260).

• Zhiguang Qiu, Eleonora Egidi, Hongwei Liu, Simranjit Kaur, Brajesh Singh*

• 2019

• ⇶Soil amendments with ethylene precursor affect the soil microbiome and reverse negative impacts of salinity on soil microbial functions

• "Scientific Reports" 中文版

• Top 100 microbiology paper of the journal

• Hongwei Liu*, Muhammad Yahya Khan, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Paul G. Dennis, Peer M. Schenk

• 2019

• Plant defence by VOC-induced microbial priming 

• "Trends in Plant Science" （cited 126）

• Hongwei Liu*, Laura Brettell

• 2018

• Activation of the salicylic acid signalling pathway in wheat did not influence the root microbiome within a short period

• "Pedobiolologia - Journal of Soil Ecology"

• Hongwei Liu, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Peer M. Schenk, Paul G. Dennis* 

• 2018

• Strategic tillage in conservation agricultural systems of north-eastern Australia: why, where, when and how?

• "Environmental Science and Pollution Research"

• Yash P. Dang*, Anna Balzer, Mark Crawford, Vivian Rincon-Florez, Hongwei Liu, Alice Melland, Dio Antille, Shreevatsa Kodur, Mike Bell, Jermney Whish, Yunru Lai, Nikki Seymour, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Peer M. Schenk

• 2017

• Effects of jasmonic acid signalling on the wheat microbiome differ between body sites

• "Scientific Reports" Cited:113.

• Hongwei Liu, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Peer M. Schenk, Paul G. Dennis*

• 2017

• ⇶Inner plant values: diversity, colonization and benefits from endophytic bacteria"

• Web of Science highly cited article (1%)/ Cited by Nature Paper: Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between seagrass and a marine bacterium

• "Frontiers in Microbiology"（cited 638）

• Hongwei Liu*, Mark Crawford, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Eugenie Singh, Paul G. Dennis, Corné M. J. Pieterse, Peer M. Schenk

• 2016

• One-time strategic tillage does not cause major impacts on soil microbial properties in a no-till Calcisol

• "Soil and Tillage Research"

• Hongwei Liu, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Vivian Rincon-Florez, Mark Crawford, Yash P. Dang, Paul G. Dennis, Peer M. Schenk*

• 2016

• Strategic tillage on a Grey Vertosol after fifteen years of no-till management had no short-term impact on soil properties and agronomic productivity

• "Geoderma"

• Hongwei Liu, Mark Crawford, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Yash P. Dang, Paul G. Dennis, Peer M. Schenk*

• 2016

• Development of marker genes for jasmonic acid signaling pathway in shoots and roots of wheat

• "Plant Signaling and Behavior"

• Hongwei Liu, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Kemal Kazan, Peer M. Schenk*

• 2016

• Strategic tillage increased the relative abundance of Acidobacteria but did not impact on overall soil microbial properties of a 19-year no-till Solonetz

• "Biology and Fertility of Soils"

• Hongwei Liu, Lilia C. Carvalhais, Mark Crawford, Yash P. Dang, Paul G. Dennis, Peer M. Schenk*   

              Before 2016
               Dependence of catalytic performance of a freeze-dried whole-cell biocatalyst of Pseudomonas fluorescens in regioselective acetylation of 1-β- d- arabinofuranosylcytosine on growth conditions. 2015.

               A new, efficient and highly-regioselective approach to synthesis of 6-O-propionyl-d-glucose by using whole-cell biocatalysts. 2012.