Zheng Chengyan

Center for Crop Management and Farming System

Institute of Crop Sciences

No.12 Zhongguancun South Street

Beijing, 100081, China

Tel:86-10-82106370

Fax:86-10-82106370

Email: zhengchengyan@caas.cn

Educations

l  2006 - 2011:   Ph.D. in Crop Cultivation and Farming System, Shandong Agricultural University;

l  2002 - 2006: B.S.  in Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University.

Working Experience

l  2023 - now, Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2016 - 2022, Associate Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2011 - 2015, Assistant Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2022 - 2025, Deputy Director of Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Xizang Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences

Research Interests

l  Farming System Innovation: Effects of conservational farming system (crop straw recycling, manure application, cover crop, less tillage, crop rotation, etc.) on soil physical processes;

l  Agro-ecosystem Response and Adaptation to Climate Change: Crop physiological and ecological responses to climatic warming;

l  Crop Production and Resource Use: Wheat/corn production with high yield; Water/Nitrogen use with high efficiency; Techniques of cropping system for environmental and climatic health.

Academic Qualifications

l  Deputy section leader of Wheat Cultivation Section, the Crop Science Society of China;

l  Committee member of Farming System Branch, the Chinese Society of Agronomy.

Selected Publications (*corresponding authors)

1.     Wu Liuge, Wang Qiang, Su Yuxiao, Zheng Yuntan, Lu Yulun, Zheng Shanchao, Akhtar Muhammad, Deng Aixing, Zhang Xin, Song Zhenwei, Zheng Chengyan*, Zhang Weijian*(2026). Optimizing maize straw return enhances wheat yield and nitrogen use efficiency while reducing N₂O emissions. Soil & Tillage Research, 256:106866.

2.     Muhammad Akhtar, Wu Liuge, Chen Jian, Su Yuxiao, Zheng Yuntan, Lu Yulun, Zheng Shanchao, Deng Aixing, Song Zhenwei, Zheng Chengyan* and Zhang Weijian*(2025). One-time double-layer placement of controlled-release urea enhances wheat yield, nitrogen use efficiency and mitigates N₂O emissions. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16:1634174.

3.     Wu Liuge, Chen Jian, Zhang Xin, Deng Aixing, Song Zhenwei, Zheng Chengyan*, Zhang Weijian (2025). Changes in yield and quality traits of nationally approved winter wheat varieties in China over last twenty years. Acta Agronomica Sinica, 51(7):1814-1826.

4.     Zhang Xin, Qian Haoyu, Hua Keke, Chen Huan, Deng Aixing, Song Zhenwei, Zhang Jun, Abdulkareem Raheem, Frederick Danso, Wang Daozhong*, Zheng Chengyan*, Zhang Weijian (2022). Organic amendments increase crop yield while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the perspective of carbon fees in a soybean-wheat system. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 325:107736.

5.     Hojatollah Latifmanesh, Deng Aixing, Li Liang, Chen Zongjin, Zheng Yuntan, Bao Xiaotong, Zheng Chengyan*, Zhang Weijian. How incorporation depth of corn straw affects straw decomposition rate and C&N release in the wheat-corn cropping system. Agriculture, Ecosystems &Environment, 300:107000.

6.     Deng Aixing，Zhang Xin, Zhang Xingyue, Qian Haoyu, Zhang Yu, Chen Changli, Jiang Yu, Zheng Chengyan*, Zhang Weijian (2019). Impacts of wheat photosynthate allocation on soil N2O emission during post-anthesis period. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 55:643-648.

7.  Hojatollah Latifmanesh, Deng Aixing, Nawaz Muhammad Mohsin, Li Liang, Chen Zongjin, Zheng Yuntan, Wang Pei, Song Zhenwei, Zhang Jun, Zheng Chengyan*, Zhang Weijian (2018). Integrative impacts of rotational tillage on wheat yield and dry matter accumulation under corn-wheat cropping system. Soil & Tillage Research, 184:100-108.

8.  Zheng Chengyan, Zhang Jun, Chen Jin, Chen Changqing, Tian Yunlu, Deng Aixing, Song Zhenwei, Nawaz Muhammad Mohsin, van Groenigen Kees Jan, Zhang Weijian* (2017). Nighttime warming increases winter-sown wheat yield across major Chinese cropping regions. Field Crops Research, 214: 202-210.

9.  Zheng Chengyan, Deng Aixing, Hojatollah Latifmanesh, Song Zhenwei, Zhang Jun, Wang Li, Zhang Weijian (2017). Warming impacts on the dry matter accumulation, and translocation and nitrogen uptake and utilization of winter wheat on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology, 41(10): 1060-1068.

10.  Zheng Chengyan, Chen Jin, Song Zhenwei, Deng Aixing, Jiang Lina, Zhang Baoming, Zhang Weijian (2015). Differences in warming impacts on wheat productivity among varieties released in different eras in North China. Journal of Agricultural Science, 153: 1353-1364.