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Xiaoxia Ling

Dr. Xiaoxia Ling

  • E-mail: lingxiaoxia@mail.hzau.edu.cn
  • Address: College of Plant Science and Technology (A312), Huazhong Agricultural University, 430070, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Collaboration researcher

Research Interests: Crop canopy architecture, gas exchange and modeling

More information could be found at her Researchgate .

Work experience

2008-01 to present, Huazhong Agricultural University, Lecturer

2017-03 to 2018-03, International Rice Research Institute, Visiting scholar, Dr. TaoLi

2002-09 to 2007-12, Huazhong Agricultural University, Assistant

Education experience

2011-09 to 2019-12, Ph.D., Huazhong Agricultural University, Jianliang Huang

2004-09 to 2007-06, M.S, Huazhong Agricultural University, Jing Li

1998-09 to 2002-06, B.S, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Yuzhi Song

Publications

  1. Weila Cheng, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, Fei Wang, Jianguo Man, Zhenmei Wang, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Nitrogen supply and neighbour identity shape responses to belowground interactions in a cultivated rice genotype and its wild relative. Annals of Botany PDF
  2. Weila Cheng, Ningyu Liu, Hongshun Xiang, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Photosynthesis phenotyping: Where are we and how should we move forward? Plant Ecophysiology 2(1):4. PDF
  3. Qila Sha, Xiaoxia Ling, Xianke Yang, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Method-dependent variation in stomatal trait estimation and its functional implications in Oryza species. Physiologia Plantarum 178:e71153. PDF
  4. Qiaoyun Zhang, Sheng Liang, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, Liang Fang, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Integrating curve-shape traits to assess photosynthetic thermal responses in rice. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 212:e70174. PDF
  5. Ya Zhang, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Leaf width expansion and biomass allocation, rather than photosynthetic rate, drive early vigor in newly developed rice lines. Journal of Experimental Botany 77(12):3793–3805. PDF
  6. Junzhou Liu, Jinfang Zhao, Xiaoxia Ling, and Dongliang Xiong. 2025. 13C labeling to determine intra-leaf photosynthetic heterogeneity dynamics during drought and rewatering. Journal of Experimental Botany 76(16):4640–4653. PDF
  7. Yadi Fan, Zhuo Chen, Xianke Yang, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, Xiaoxia Ling, and Dongliang Xiong. 2025. The race to flourish: Evaluating natural variation of early growth rates in rice. Food and Energy Security 14(5):e70133. PDF
  8. Tingting Du, Xiaoxia Ling, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2024. Photosynthesis of rice leaves with a parallel venation is highly tolerant to vein severing. Physiologia Plantarum 176(2):e14241. PDF
  9. Xiaoxia Ling, Nanyan Deng, Dongliang Xiong, Shen Yuan, Shaobing Peng, Tao Li, and Jianliang Huang. 2023. Effect of variation in the observations on the prediction uncertainty in crop model simulation: Use ORYZA (v3) as a case study. Ecological Modelling 476:110233.
  10. Dongliang Xiong, Xiaoxia Ling, Jianliang Huang, and Shaobing Peng. 2017. Meta-analysis and dose-response analysis of high-temperature effects on rice yield and quality. Environmental and Experimental Botany 141:1–9. PDF
  11. Dongliang Xiong#, Jia Chen#, Tingting Yu#, Wanlin Gao, Xiaoxia Ling, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng, and Jianliang Huang. 2015. SPAD-based leaf nitrogen estimation is impacted by environmental factors and crop leaf characteristics. Scientific Reports 5:13389. PDF
  12. Dongliang Xiong, Tingting Yu, Xiaoxia Ling, Shah Fahad, Shaobing Peng, Yong Li, and Jianliang Huang. 2015. Sufficient leaf transpiration and nonstructural carbohydrates are beneficial for high-temperature tolerance in three rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars and two nitrogen treatments. Functional Plant Biology 42:347–356. PDF

Manuscripts under review

  1. Shunjin Zhu, Linna Zheng, Sheng Liang, Yang Xiao, Jinfang Zhao, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Paddy-upland rotation increases annual productivity and reduces global warming potential: A meta-analysis with maize-rice field experimental validation. Under review.
  2. Yinghao Zhao, Yueying Wang, Xiaoxia Ling, Xianke Yang, Hongshun Xiang, Zhenmei Wang, Nanyan Deng, Jianguo Man, Fei Wang, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Upper-leaf photosynthesis does not capture whole-plant carbon gain during nitrogen recovery in rice. In revision.