Zhixin Zhang

　　 　　

　　Zhixin Zhang, Ph D, Associate Professor

　　E-mail: zhixin@nwafu.edu.cn

　　No.3 Taicheng Road, Yangling, Shaanxi, China 712100

　　Education:

　　2004-2008 Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Grassland Science, BS.

　　2009-2017 Lanzhou University, Grassland Science, Ph.D.

　　2014-2015 CSIRO of Australia (Studying)

　　Work Experience:

　　2019.07-     Associate Professor, Department of Grassland Engineering, College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University

　　Research Interests:

　　Forage production and management; Grassland ecology; Interaction of plant and soil.

　　Teaching Course:

　　Weed Science; Research Progress of Turf Science.

　　Publications:

　　[1]Zhixin Zhang, Kailiang Yu, Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Zhibiao Nan*. Phenology and sowing time affect water use in four warm-season annual grasses under a semi-arid environment. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2019.269-270:257-269.

　　[2]Zhixin Zhang, Michael Christensen, Zhibiao Nan*, Jeremy P.M. Whish, Lindsay W. Bell, Jianfeng Wang, Zhiwei Wang, Richard Sim. Plant development and solar radiation interception of four annual forage plants in response to sowing date in a semi-arid environment. Industrial Crops and Products. 2019.131:41-53.

　　[3]Kai Gao*, Zhixin Zhang*, Tiexia Zhu, Xun Tian, Yang Gao, Lixing Zhao, Tianqi Li. The influence of leaf removal on tuber yield and fuel characteristics of Helianthus tuberosus L. in a semi-arid area. Industrial Crops and Products. 2019.131:8-13.

　　[4]Zhixin Zhang, Kailiang Yu, Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Zhibiao Nan*. Above- and below- ground dry matter partition of four warm-season annual crops as affected by sowing date. European Journal of Agronomy.2019.

　　[5]Zhixin Zhang, Jeremy P.M. Whish, Lindsay Bell, Zhibiao Nan*. Forage production, quality and water-use-efficiency of four warm-season annual crops at three sowing times in the Loess Plateau region of China. European Journal of Agronomy. 2017.84:84-94.

　　[6]Zhixin Zhang, Xun Tian*, Lei Sun. Germination behaviour of Cenchrus pauciflorus seeds across a range of salinities. Weed Research. 2017.57(2):91-100.

　　[7]Zhixin Zhang, Xun Tian*, Yuguang Bai, Huifang Liu, Xueli Niu, Zhiwei Wang, Qian Wang. Field sandbur (Cenchrus pauciflorus) seeds in the same bur respond differently to temperature and water potential in relation to germination in a semi-arid environment, China. PloS One. 2016.11(12):e0168394.

　　[8]Zhixin Zhang, Zhibiao Nan*. Optimizing productivity of annual forages by adjusting sowing date in a semiarid environment. The 4th International Grassland Agro-ecosystems Conference. 2018:17-19.

　　[9]Jianfeng Wang, Zhibiao Nan*, Michael J. Christensen, Xingxu Zhang, Pei Tian, Zhixin Zhang, Xueli Niu, Peng Gao, Tao Chen, and LIxia Ma. Effect of Epichlo? gansuensis Endophyte on the Nitrogen Metabolism, Nitrogen Use Efficiency, and Stoichiometry of Achnatherum inebrians under Nitrogen Limitation. Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2018. 66(16):4022-4031.

　　[10]Yafeng Huang, Xiaoli Gao, Zhibiao Nan*, Zhixin Zhang. Potential value of the common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) as an animal feedstuff: a review. Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition. 2017. 101(5):807-823.

　　[11]Yafeng Huang, Rui Li, Jeffrey A. Coulter, Zhixin Zhang, Zhibiao Nan*. Comparative grain chemical composition, ruminal degradation in vivo, and intestinal digestibility in vitro of Vicia Sativa L. varieties grown on the Tibetan Plateau. Animals. 2019. 9(5): 212.

　　[12]Wei Tang, Rui Li, Zhixin Zhang, Carol C. Baskin, Zhibiao Nan*. Mulching affects seed set, provisioning, and offspring performance of Vicia unijuga (Fabaceae). Agronomy Journal. 2019.3(3):1341-1357.