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Chao Xiong

Also known as: Interested in soil and plant microbiomes, plant-microbiome interactions, environmental pathogens, and soil health.

The University of Western Australia, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University

Research areas: Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Plant Science · Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity · Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions · Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

ORCID iD 0000-0002-3023-0494
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Dr Chao Xiong is a Research fellow at The University of Western Australia. His research interests centre on plant microbiomes, environmental pathogens, and soil health. He has been awarded the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026. He was recognised as a 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.

His current research focuses on harnessing the diversity, functions, and interactions of soil and plant microbiomes for enhancing crop health and food security, and developing shotgun metagenomics-based workflows to identify human and plant pathogens along the soil–plant–food continuum.

His previous research works included host selection impacts on crop microbiome assembly, the temporal dynamics of the plant microbiome, dominant diazotrophic taxa of crop microbiomes, and microbiome diversity and functions along the soil–plant continuum.

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