Thang Lai

Research Interests

Agronomy & Agriculture

Mr Thang Lai

Technical Officer

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

College of Science

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

Date Institution name Country Title
2016 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD
2014 The University of Adelaide Australia Master

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.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2025 Lai, T. V., Ryder, M. H., Rathjen, J. R., Riley, I. T., & Denton, M. D. (2025). Seed-applied micronutrient toxicity to rhizobia and impaired legume nodulation.. J Appl Microbiol, 136(4), 9 pages.
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2025 Rathjen, J. R., Ryder, M. H., Lai, T. V., Riley, I. T., Brand, J., & Denton, M. D. (2025). The impact of fungicides with contrasting toxicities to rhizobia on the growth and nodulation of pulses in southern Australia. Crop and Pasture Science, 76(9), 16 pages.
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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 Scopus5 WoS5
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 Scopus32 WoS26
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 Scopus19 WoS14 Europe PMC7
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 Scopus50 WoS45
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 Scopus24 WoS21

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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