Affiliated Department: College of Plant Science and Technology

Laboratory Location: College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University (Third Comprehensive Building), Rooms A309-310; A316 (Office)

Office Phone: 027-8728 8961 (Office)

Email: dlxiong@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Laboratory Website: www.dlxiong.org

Education

September 2011 – June 2016  Huazhong Agricultural University > Crop Cultivation and Farming Science > Ph.D. > Doctor of Agricultural Sciences

September 2007 – June 2011  Huazhong Agricultural University > Crop Science > Bachelor's Degree > Undergraduate Graduation

Employment

May 2019 – Present  Faculty Member, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University

Dec 2016–May 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Huazhong Agricultural University

Jan 2018–Jan 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis

Jan 2017–Jan 2017 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Sydney

Research Themes

Global Climate Change and Rice Production

Disciplinary Field: Crop Physiological Ecology (Sub-discipline: Crop Cultivation and Farming Systems)

Journal Articles

1. Junzhou Liu, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, Dongliang Xiong(2024) Rewatering after drought: unraveling the drought thresholds and function recovery-limiting factors in maize leaves. Plant Cell and Environment 47(12):5457-5469

2. Dongliang Xiong (2024) Perspectives of improving rice photosynthesis for higher grain yield. Crop and Environment 3: 123–137

3. Tingting Du, Xiaoxia Ling, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng and Dongliang Xiong (2024) Photosynthesis of rice leaves with a parallel venation is highly tolerant to vein severing. Physiologia Plantarum 176(2):e14241

4. Junzhou Liu, Uri Hochberg, Risheng Ding, Dongliang Xiong, Zhanwu Dai, Qing Zhao, Jinliang Chen, Shasha Ji & Shaozhong Kang (2024) Elevated CO2 concentration increases maize growth under water deficit or soil salinity but with a higher risk of hydraulic failure. Journal of Experimental Botany.75(1): 422-437

5. Xiaoxiao Wang, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Dongliang Xiong (2023) Leaf rolling precedes stomatal closure in rice (Oryza sativa) under drought conditions. Journal of Experimental Botany.74(21): 6650-6661

6. Xing Yu, Guodong Yang, Zuolin Zhang, Yuan Guo, Chang Zheng, Le Xu, Shen Yuan, Dongliang Xiong & Shaobing Peng (2023) Cutting height of main crop has profound effects on cadmium but not arsenic concentration of ratoon crop in rice. Field Crops Research.302:109085

7. Wei Xue, Dandan Liu, Tiina Tosens, Dongliang Xiong, Marc Carriquí, Youcai Xiong & Jonghan Ko (2023) Cell wall thickness has phylogenetically consistent effects on the photosynthetic nitrogen‐use efficiency of terrestrial plants. Plant, Cell & Environment. 46(8): 2323-2336

8. Dongliang Xiong (2023) Leaf anatomy does not explain the large variability of mesophyll conductance across C3 crop species. Plant Journal.113(5):1035-1048

9. Xiaoxia Ling, Nanyan Deng, Dongliang Xiong, Shen Yuan, Shaobing Peng, Tao Li, Jianliang Huang (2023) Effect of variation in the observations on the prediction uncertainty in crop model simulation: Use ORYZA (v3) as a case study .Ecological Modelling. 476: 110233

10. Dongliang Xiong, & Jaume Flexas (2022) Safety-efficiency tradeoffs ? Correlations of photosynthesis, leaf hydraulics, and dehydration tolerance across species. Oecologia. 200:51–64

11. Dongliang Xiong, Jaume Flexas, Jianliang Huang, Kehui Cui, Fei Wang, Meng Lin, and Cyril Douthe (2022) Why high yield QTLs did not succeed in preventing yield stagnation in rice? Crop and Environment. 1(2):103-107.

12. Xiaoxiao Wang, Jinfang Zhao, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Dongliang Xiong(2022) Evaporative Flux Method of Leaf Hydraulic Conductance Estimation: Sources of Uncertainty and Reporting Format Recommendation. Plant Methods. 18:63

13. Jaume Flexas#, Yali Zhang#, Javier Gulías#, Dongliang Xiong#, Marc Carriquí, Tingting Du, Zhangying Lei, Haitao Du, Haofeng Meng, Xiang Dao & Wenbin Xu (2022) Leaf physiological traits of plants from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other arid sites in China: identifying susceptible species and well-adapted extremophiles. Journal of Plant Physiology.272 153689

14. Shaobing Peng, Dongliang Xiong, & Liangzhi You (2022) Inauguration of a new journal with focus on sustainable intensification of crop production: Crop and Environment, Crop and Environment. Volume 1(1): 1

15. Christopher D Muir, Miquel Angel Conesa, Jeroni Galmes, Varsha S Pathare, Patricia Rivera, Rosana Lopez Rodriguez, Teresa Terrazas, & Dongliang Xiong, Developmental integration cannot explain major features of stomatal anatomical evolution in seed plants.The American Naturalist

16. Zhuang Xiong, Dongliang Xiong, Detian Cai, Wei Wang, Kehui Cui, Shaobing Peng, & Jianliang Huang (2022) Effect of stomatal morphology on leaf photosynthetic induction under fluctuating light across diploid and tetraploid rice, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 194,104757

17. Zhuang Xiong, Zhigang Dun, Yucheng Wang, Desheng Yang, Dongliang Xiong, Kehui Cui, Shaobing Peng, & Jianliang Huang (2022) Effect of stomatal morphology on leaf photosynthetic induction under fluctuating light in rice, Frontiers in Plant Science

18. Lin Chen#, Wanzhen Luo#, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Dongliang Xiong(2021) Leaf photosynthetic plasticity does not predict biomass responses to growth irradiance in rice.Physiologia Plantarum. 173(04): 2155-2165

19. Xianhong Huang, Zhixin Wang, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Dongliang Xiong(2021) Mesophyll conductance variability of rice aquaporin knockout lines at different growth stages and growing environments.The Plant Journal. 107(05): 1503 - 1512

20. Dongliang Xiong & Jaume Flexas (2021) Leaf anatomical characteristics are less important than leaf chemical properties in determining photosynthesis responses to top-dress N.Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(15): 5709–5720

21. Jaume Flexas , María J Clemente-Moreno, Josefina Bota, Tim J Brodribb, Jorge Gago, Yusuke Mizokami, Miquel Nadal, Alicia V Perera-Castro, Margalida Roig-Oliver, Daisuke Sugiura, Dongliang Xiong & Marc Carriquí (2021) Cell wall thickness and composition are involved in photosynthetic limitation.Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(11): 3971–3986

22. Dongliang Xiong & Jaume Flexas (2020) From one-side to two-sides: the effects of stomatal distribution on photosynthesis.New Phytologist, 228(6): 1754-1766

23. Tingting Du, Ping Meng, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Dongliang Xiong (2020) Fast photosynthesis measurements for phenotyping photosynthetic capacity of rice. Plant Methods, 16: 6

24. Dongliang Xiong & Miquel Nadal (2020) Linking water relations and hydraulics with photosynthesis. The Plant Journal,101(4): 800–815

25. Dongliang Xiong & Jaume Flexas. (2018) Leaf economics spectrum in rice: Leaf anatomical, biochemical and physiological trait trade-offs. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69(22): 5599–5609.

26. Xiaoxiao Wang#, Tingting Du#, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Dongliang Xiong. (2018) Leaf hydraulic vulnerability triggers the decline in stomatal and mesophyll conductance during drought in rice (Oryza sativa). Journal of Experimental Botany, 69(16): 4033–4045. (#co-first authors)

27. Xiaoxiao Wang, Wencheng Wang, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Dongliang Xiong. (2018) Diffusional conductance to CO2 is the key limitation to photosynthesis in salt-stressed leaves of rice (Oryza sativa).Physiologia Plantarum, 163: 45-58.

28. Dongliang Xiong, Cyril Douthe & Jaume Flexas. (2018) Differential coordination of stomatal conductance, mesophyll conductance and leaf hydraulic conductance in response to changing light across species. Plant, Cell & Environment. 41: 436-450

29. Dongliang Xiong, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Yong Li. (2017) A few enlarged chloroplasts are less efficient in photosynthesis than a large population of small chloroplasts in Arabidopsis thaliana. Scientific Reports. 7: 5782

30. Dongliang Xiong, Xiaoxia Ling, Jianliang Huang & Shaobing Peng. (2017) Meta-analysis and dose-response analysis of high-temperature effects on rice yield and quality. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 141: 1-9

31. Dongliang Xiong, Jaume Flexas, Tingting Yu, Shaobing Peng & Jianliang Huang. (2017) Leaf anatomy mediates coordination of leaf hydraulic conductance and mesophyll conductance to CO2 in Oryza. New Phytologist. 213: 572-583.

32. Dongliang Xiong, Dan Wang, Xi Liu, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng & Yong Li. (2016) Leaf density explains variation in leaf mass per area in rice across cultivars and nitrogen treatments. Annal of Botany.117: 963-971

33. Dongliang Xiong, Xi Liu, Limin Liu, Cyril Douthe, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng & Jianliang Huang, (2015) Rapid responses of mesophyll conductance to changes of CO2 concentration, temperature and irradiance are affected by N supplements in rice. Plant, Cell & Environment, 38(12): 2541-2550.

34. Dongliang Xiong#, Jia Chen#, Tingting Yu#, Wanlin Gao, Xiaoxia Ling, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng & Jianliang Huang. (2015) SPAD-based leaf nitrogen estimation is impacted by environmental factors and crop leaf characteristics. Scientific Reports . 5: 13389. (#Co-first authors)

35. Dongliang Xiong, Tingting Yu, Xi Liu, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng & Jianliang Huang. (2015) Heterogeneity of photosynthesis within leaves is associated with alteration of leaf structural features and leaf N content per leaf area in rice. Functional Plant Biology , 42: 687-696.

36. Dongliang Xiong, Tingting Yu, Tong Zhang, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng & Jianliang Huang. (2015) Leaf hydraulic conductance is coordinated with leaf morpho-anatomical traits and nitrogen status in the genus Oryza. Journal of Experimental Botany. 66: 741-748.

37. Dongliang Xiong, Tingting Yu, Xiaoxia Ling, Shah Fahad, Shaobing Peng, Yong Li & Jianliang Huang. (2015) Sufficient leaf transpiration and nonstructural carbohydrates are beneficial for high-temperature tolerance in three rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars and two nitrogen treatments. Functional Plant Biology.42: 347-356.