Hui-zhen Qiu
Gansu Agricultural University, China
Biography
Hui-Zhen Qiu has her expertise in teaching and scientific research in the field of Plant Nutrition and Fertilization for more than thirty-five years in Gansu Agricultural University. She has focused her research work both in nutrition regulation of potato and rhizosphere processes and management of continuous potato monoculture in the past ten years. She and her group have revealed the mechanisms of the obstacles from continuous potato monoculture, and have established a set of technologies for managing rhizosphere microbiome to improve potato plant health and productivity, based on organic fertilizer and PGPRs.