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

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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

Research Interests

Agronomy & Agriculture

Journals

Year	Citation
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. DOI Scopus1
2021	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. DOI Scopus21 WoS8
2020	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. DOI Scopus15 WoS8 Europe PMC4
2019	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. DOI Scopus34 WoS25
2018	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. DOI Scopus19 WoS12

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

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2024	External Supervisor	The Contribution of Lentil Nitrogen to Farming Systems in South Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Pengly Koun

Position: Technical Officer
Phone: 83131430
Email: thang.lai@adelaide.edu.au
Fax: 83137109
Campus: Main
Building: Waite, floor GE
Org Unit: Agricultural Science

Dr Thang Lai

Research Interests

Journals

Conference Items

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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