Jianbo Shen
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Jianbo Shen is a Professor in the Department of Plant Nutrition in China Agricultural University. He works on the plant-soil interactions and focuses on root/rhizosphere nutrition and management for improving nutrient/water use efficiency and crop productivity with environmental resilience. He earned his Ph.D. from China Agricultural University; postdoc and the international academic experience were at The University of Western Australia, Hohenheim University, Wageningen University, Minnesota University and Lancaster University. He has coupled the techniques of plant-soil interaction sciences, in combination with root biology, to enhance our understanding of biological and chemical processes in the rhizosphere of legume and cereal crops under nutrient deficiency stresses or intensive farming systems and to improve the nutrient use efficiency and reduce pollution. He is also interested in the science underpinning food security, resource use efficiency as well as technology transfer and transformation of agriculture in China. He won the National Natural Science Award (second class) and National Science and Technology Progress Award (second class), edited four books and published 100 peer-reviewed papers.