Publications

2016-present
  1. He J, Xiao J, Shen X, Zhao K, Lei X, Zhang H, Sun C, Lu H, Shao Y. Multi-habitat landscape promotes microbial diversity: Insights from the traditional agricultural heritage and the global trend. Advanced Science, 2025, e06402.
  2. Song X, Wang Y, Wang Y, Zhao K, Tong D, Lv X, Kong D, Wang M, Tang X, Li F, Luo Y, Zhu Y, Xu J, Ma B. Rhizosphere-triggered viral lysogeny mediates microbial metabolic reprogramming to enhance arsenic oxidation. Nature Communications, 2025, 16: 4048.
  3. Zhao K, Wang Y, Xue R, Liu X, Ma B, Xu J. Agriculture increases potential health risks of vertebrate viruses in soils. iMeta, 2025, 4:70034.
  4. He D, Dai Z, Cheng S, Shen H, Lin J, Zhao K, Rodrigues JL, Kuzyakov Y, Xu J. Microbial life-history strategies and genomic traits between pristine and cropland soils. mSystems. 2025, e00178-25.
  5. Ding C, Liu Y, Hernández M, Sun H, Jiao S, Pan H, Ge T, Zhao K, Zhang Q, Xu J, Li Y. Coupling soil bacterial and fungal community traits to multifunctionality in grassland ecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2025, 388:109648.
  6. Zhang S, Sun J, Zhou Q, Feng X, Yang J, Zhao K, Zhang A, Zhang S, Yao Y. Microplastic contamination in Chinese topsoil from 1980 to 2050. Science of the Total Environment, 2024, 955: 176918.
  7. Wang X, Dai Z, Lin J, Peng X, Zhao Y, Yu H, Zhao K, Barberán A, Kuzyakov Y. Microbial rrn copy number is associated with soil C:N and pH under long-term fertilization. Science of the Total Environment, 2024, 954: 176675.
  8. Li W#, Wang Y#, Zhao K, Xu L, Shi T, Ma B, Lv X. Host-virus coevolution drives soil microbial function succession along a millennium land reclamation chronosequence. Journal of Advanced Research, 2024.
  9. Liu Y, Zhao K, Stirling E, Wang X, Gao Z, Ma B, Xu C, Chen S, Chu G, Zhang X, Wang D. Heterosis of endophytic microbiomes in hybrid rice varieties improves seed germination. mSystems, 2024, 9(5): e00004-24.
  10. Ma B#, Wang Y#, Zhao K, Erinne S, Lv X, Yu Y, Hu L, Tang C, Wu C, Dong B, Xue R, Dahlgren R, Tan X, Dai H, Zhu Y, Chu H, Xu J. Biogeographic patterns and drivers of soil viromes across the globe. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024, 8(4): 717-728.
  11. Wang Y, Ma S, Zhao K, Ding F, Liu X. Exploring metal (loid) s dynamics and bacterial community shifts in contaminated paddy soil: Impact of MgO-laden biochar under different water conditions. Environmental Pollution, 2024, 345: 123416.
  12. Xue R, Stirling E, Zhao K, Wang Y, Ye S, Xu J, Ma B. Putting cell size into perspective: Soil bacterial diversity and predictive function. Geoderma, 2024, 443: 116804.
  13. Asiedu E, Zhao K, Anwar M, Ross M, Balaberda A, Ulrich A. Biodegradation in oil sands process-affected water: A comprehensive laboratory analysis of the in situ biodegradation of dissolved organic acids. Chemosphere, 2024, 349: 141018.
  14. Ding C, Liu Y, Dumont M, Pan H, Zhao K, Li Y, Zhang Q, Luo Y, Jiao S, Di H, Xu J, Li Y. Mean annual precipitation modulates the assembly of high-affinity methanotroph communities and methane oxidation activity across grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2024, 360: 108796.
  15. Li C, Gillings M, Zhang C, Chen Q, Zhu D, Wang J, Zhao K, Xu Q, Leung P, Li X, Liu J. Ecology and risks of the global plastisphere as a newly expanding microbial habitat. The Innovation, 2024, 5(1).
  16. Ma B#, Lu C#, Wang Y#, Yu J, Zhao K, Xue R, Ren H, Lv XF, Pan R, Zhang J, Zhu Y, Xu J. A genomic catalogue of soil microbiomes boosts mining of biodiversity and genetic resources. Nature Communications, 2023,14(1):7318.
  17. Xue R, Liu S, Stirling E, Wang Y, Zhao K, Marsumoto H, Wang M, Xu J, Ma B. Core community drives phyllosphere bacterial diversity and function in multiple ecosystems. Science of The Total Environment, 2023, 896: 165187.
  18. Yuan J, Zhao K, Tan X, Xue R, Zeng Y, Carlo R, Trivedi P. Prospective on the development of synthetic microbial community (SynCom) biosensors. Trends in Biotechnology, 2023, 41(10): 1227-1236.
  19. Wang B, Xu J, Wang Y, Stirling E, Zhao K, Lu C, Tan X, Kong D, Yan Q, He Z, Ruan Y, Ma B. Tackling antibiotic resistance gene carrying pathogens in soils with global-scale metagenomics. Advanced Science, 2023, 10: 2301980.
  20. Xue R, Liu S, Stirling E, Wang Y, Zhao K, Matsumoto H, Wang M, Xu J, Ma B. Core community drives phyllosphere bacterial diversity and function in multiple ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 896: 165187.
  21. Song X, Li Y, Stirling E, Zhao K, Wang B, Zhu Y, Luo Y, Xu J, Ma B. AsgeneDB: a curated orthology arsenic metabolism gene database and computational tool for metagenome annotation. NAR genomics and bioinformatics, 2022, 4(4): lqac080.
  22. Zhao K, Yu H, Xue R, Stirling E, Wang Y, Xu J, Ma B. The only constant is change: Endogenous circadian rhythms of soil microbial activities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022, 173: 108805.
  23. Dai C, Wu H, Wang X, Zhao K, Lv Z. Network and meta-Omics reveal the key degrader and cooperation patterns in an efficient 1, 4-dioxane-degrading microbial community. Chemosphere, 2022, 301: 134723.
  24. Shen Y, Laue H, Shrubsole M, Wu H, Bloomquist T, Larouche A, Zhao K, Gao F, Boivin A, Prada D, Hunting D, Gillet V, Takser L, Baccarelli A. Associations of childhood and perinatal blood metals with children’s gut microbiomes in a Canadian gestation cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2022, 130(1): 017007.
  25. Zhao K#, Ma B#, Xu Y, Stirling E, Xu J. Light exposure mediates circadian rhythms of rhizosphere. microbial communities. The ISME Journal, 2021, 15(9): 2655-2664.
  26. Xue R, Zhao K, Yu X, Stirling E, Liu S, Ye S, Ma B, Xu J. Deciphering sample size effect on microbial biogeographic patterns and community assembly processes at centimeter scale. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021, 156: 108218.
  27. Liu Y, Ma B, Chen W, Schlaeppi K, Erb M, Stirling E, Hu L, Wang E, Zhang Y, Zhao K, Lu Z, Ye S, Xu J. Rhizobium symbiotic capacity shapes root-associated microbiomes in soybean. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021, 3711.
  28. Ma B, Stirling E, Liu Y, Zhao K, Zhou J, Singh B, Tang C, Dahlgren R, Xu J. Soil biogeochemical cycle couplings inferred from a function-taxon network. Research, 2021, 7102769.
  29. Wang X, Wu H, Wang X, Wang H, Zhao K, Ma B, Lu Z. Network-directed isolation of the cooperator Pseudomonas aeruginosa ZM03 enhanced the dibutyl phthalate degradation capacity of Arthrobacter nicotianae ZM05 under pH stress. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 124667.
  30. Lv X, Zhao K, Xue R, Liu Y, Xu J, Ma B. Strengthening insights in microbial ecological networks from theory to applications. mSystems, 2019, 4(3): e00124-19.
  31. Ma B, Zhao K, Lv X, Su W, Dai Z, Gillbert J, Brookes P, Faust K, Xu J. Genetic correlation network prediction of forest soil microbial functional organization. The ISME Journal, 2018, 12(10): 2492.
  32. Lv X, Zhao K, Li H, Ma B. Niche partition of phenanthrene-degrading bacteria along a Phragmites australis rhizosphere gradient. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2018, 54(5): 607-616.
  33. Lai C, Wen L, Shi L, Zhao K, Wang Y, Yang X, Rittmann B, Zhou C, Tang Y, Zheng P, Zhao H. Selenate and nitrate bioreductions using methane as the electron donor in a membrane biofilm reactor. Environmental Science & Technology, 2016, 50(18): 10179-10186.