
Dr Thang Lai
Technical Officer
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
I am a researcher in Agricultural science with a focus on N transformations between soils and the atmosphere; the responses of rhizobia and nodulation of legumes to different factors such as dry, acid soils as well as chemical residues following farmers' practices
I am a researcher in N transformations between soils and the atmosphere. I am currently focusing on the responses of rhizobia and the nodulation of legume crops to different soil conditions including chemical residues following farmers' practices
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Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2016 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2014 The University of Adelaide Australia Master -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2025 Riley, I. T., Ryder, M. H., Rathjen, J. R., Lai, T. V., & Denton, M. D. (2025). In vitro Assessment Indicates that Fertilizers Commonly Used in Legume Production Differentially Inhibit Commercial Rhizobial Strains. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 56(5), 687-700.
2023 Rathjen, J. R., Zaw, M., Ryder, M. H., Zhou, Y., Lai, T. V., & Denton, M. D. (2023). Native soil origin influences the symbiotic N fixation effectiveness of chickpea mesorhizobia grown in Australian soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 60(1), 137-151.
Scopus22021 Lai, T. V., Ryder, M. H., Rathjen, J. R., Bolan, N. S., Croxford, A. E., & Denton, M. D. (2021). Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium increased with rising temperature. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 57(3), 363-372.
Scopus25 WoS82020 Rathjen, J. R., Ryder, M. H., Riley, I. T., Lai, T. V., & Denton, M. D. (2020). Impact of seed-applied pesticides on rhizobial survival and legume nodulation.. J Appl Microbiol, 129(2), 389-399.
Scopus16 WoS8 Europe PMC42019 Lai, T., Farquharson, R., & Denton, M. D. (2019). High soil temperatures alter the rates of nitrification, denitrification and associated N₂O emissions. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 19(5), 2176-2189.
Scopus39 WoS252018 Lai, T., & Denton, M. D. (2018). N₂O and N₂ emissions from denitrification respond differentially to soil temperatures and nitrogen supply. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 18(4), 1548-1557.
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2020 Rathjen, J., Ryder, M., Lai, T., Riley, I., & Denton, M. (2020). Improving nodulation with seed-applied fungicides. Poster session presented at the meeting of SUNFix Symposium.
Yitpi Foundation |
2018 |
Award the Dean’s medal for Doctoral Thesis Excellence |
2016 |
The best presentation in School Symposium |
2014 |
Scholarship of The University of Adelaide |
2014 - 2016 |
Tim Healy Memorial Scholarship, Future farm industries CRC |
2014 - 2016 |
Vietnamese Scholarship, Ministry of Education |
2012 - 2014 |
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