Luke Bainard, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Environmental and Soil Microbiology

Current research and/or projects

⮚Linking nutrient cycling and soil health in Canadian agroecosystems

⮚Impacts of grazing management practices on soil microbiomes and their role in soil carbon sequestration

⮚Assessing the impact of grazing annual forage cover crops in an integrated crop-livestock system

Research and/or project statements

Additional key publications:

Hossain Z, Hubbard M, Gan Y, Bainard LD (2021) Root rot alters the root-associated microbiome of field pea in commercial crop production systems. Plant and Soil https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04779-8

Lu P, Bainard LD, Ma B, Jinghui L (2020) Bio-fertilizer and rotten straw amendments alter the rhizosphere bacterial community and increase oat productivity in a saline-alkaline environment. Scientific Reports 10:Article number 19896

Bainard LD, Evan B, Malis E, Yang T, Bainard JD (2020) Influence of annual plant diversity on forage productivity and nutrition, soil chemistry, and soil microbial communities. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4: Article 560479

Wang L, Gan Y, Bainard LD, Hamel C, St-Arnaud M, Hijri M (2020) Expression of nitrogen cycling genes of root microbiomes provides insights for sustaining oilseed crop productions. Environmental Microbiology 22: 4545-4556

Azarbad H, Tremblay J, Giard-Laliberte C, Bainard LD, Yergeau E (2020) Four decades of soil water stress history together with host genotype constrain the response of the wheat microbiome to soil moisture. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 96:fiaa098

Bainard JD, Serajchi M, Bainard LD, Schellenberg MP, Lamb EG (2020) Impact of Annual Forage Intercropping on Weed Control in a Semiarid Environment. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4:Article 92

Delavaux C, Bever JD, Karppinen EM, Bainard LD (2020) Soil sample cold packstorage conditions and DNA shipment up to one month does not impact metabarcoding results. Ecology and Evolution 10: 4652-4664

Karppinen EM, Payment J, Chatterton S, Bainard JD, Hubbard M, Gan Y, Bainard LD (2020) Distribution and abundance of Aphanomyces euteiches in agricultural soils: effect of land use type, soil properties, and crop management practices. Applied Soil Ecology 150:103470

Li Y, Tremblay J, Bainard LD, Cade-Menun BJ, Hamel C (2020) Long-term effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on soil microbial community structure and function under continuous wheat production. Environmental Microbiology doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14824

Giard-Laliberte C, Azarbad H, Tremblay J, Bainard LD, Yergeau E (2019) A water stress-adapted inoculum affects rhizosphere fungi, but not bacteria nor wheat. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz080

Boilard G, Bradley RL, Paterson E, Sim A., Brown LK, George TS, Bainard LD, Carubba A (2019) Interaction between root hairs and soil phosphorus on rhizosphere priming of soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 135:264-266

Hamel C, Gan Y, Messer D, Bainard LD (2019) Soil 16S DNA sequence data and corresponding soil property and wheat yield data from a 72-plot field experiment involving pulses and wheat crops grown in rotations in the semiarid prairie. Data in Brief 103790

Hossain Z, Bainard LD, Gan Y (2019) Selection of antagonistic bacteria from pea root and rhizosphere to manage Aphanomyces root rot. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 41: 152

Azarbad H, Constant P, Giard-Laliberte C, Bainard LD, Yergeau E (2018) Water stress history and wheat genotype modulate rhizosphere microbial response to drought. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 126:228-236 

Niu Y, Bainard LD, May WE, Hossain Z, Hamel C, Gan Y (2018) Intensified pulse rotations buildup pea rhizosphere pathogens in cereal and pulse based cropping systems. Frontiers in Microbiology, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01909

Hamel C, Gan Y, Sokolski S, Bainard LD (2018) High frequency cropping of pulses modifies soil nitrogen level and the rhizosphere bacterial microbiome in 4-year rotation systems of the semiarid prairie. Applied Soil Ecology 236:47-56

Education and awards

Ph.D. Ecology, University of Guelph

MSc Plant Science, University of British Columbia

BSc Environmental Science, Trinity Western University

 

Key publications

  1. Cade-Menun, B.J., Bainard, L.D., LaForge, K., Schellenberg, M., Houston, B., Hamel, C. (2017). Long-term agricultural land use affects chemical and physical properties of soils from southwest Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, [online] 97(4), 650-666. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2016-0153

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  2. Niu, Y., Bainard, L.D., Bandara, M., Hamel, C., Gan, Y. (2017). Soil residual water and nutrients explain about 30% of the rotational effect in 4-yr pulse-intensified rotation systems. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 97(5), 853-864. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2016-0282

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  3. Bainard, L.D., Navarro-Borrell, A., Hamel, C., Braun, K., Hanson, K., Gan, Y. (2017). Increasing the frequency of pulses in crop rotations reduces soil fungal diversity and increases the proportion of fungal pathotrophs in a semiarid agroecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, [online] 240 206-214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.02.020

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  4. Bainard, L.D., Navarro-Borrell, A., Hamel, C., Braun, K., Hanson, K., Gan, Y. 2017. Increasing the frequency of pulses in crop rotations reduces soil fungal diversity and increases the proportion of fungal pathotrophs in a semiarid agroecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 240(1), 206-214.

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  5. Bainard, L.D., Hamel, C., Gan, Y. (2016). Edaphic properties override the influence of crops on the composition of the soil bacterial community in a semiarid agroecosystem. Applied Soil Ecology, [online] 105 160-168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.03.013

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  6. Liu, J.Q., Cade-Menun, B.J., Yang, J., Hu, Y.F., Liu, C.W., Bainard, L.D., LaForge, K., and Hamel, C. (2015). "Phosphorus speciation in soils under different land use in southwestern Saskatchewan.", Canadian Light Source Meeting, May 4, 2015.

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  7. Bainard, L.D., Hamel, C., Cade-Menun, B.J., Chagnon, P.-L., LaForge, K., and Gan, Y.T. (2015). "Dissecting the impact of land use on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a semiarid prairie landscape.", 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, August 3-7, 2015, pp. 29.

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  8. Dai, M., Bainard, L.D., Hamel, C., Bell, T., Terrat, Y., Hijri, M., and St-Arnaud, M. (2015). "Metagenomic analysis of soil microbial composition in different land use types.", Mycorhizes 2015, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 8-9, 2015, pp. 13.

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  9. Dai, M., Hamel, C., Terrat, Y., Bainard, L.D., Hijri, M., and St-Arnaud, M. (2015). "Human activities effect on functional and taxonomic microbial diversity in agroecosystem revealed by metagenomic analysis.", 2015 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 28-29, 2015.

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  10. Navarro-Borrell, A., Hamel, C., Bainard, L.D., Gan, Y.T., and Germida, J.J. (2015). "Fungal diversity associated with pulses and its influence on the subsequent wheat crop in a 2-year study.", Canadian Soil Science Society (IUSS-CSSS-AQSSS) Conference, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 5-10, 2015.

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  11. Navarro-Borrell, A., Hamel, C., Bainard, L.D., Gan, Y.T., and Germida, J.J. (2015). "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biodiversity associated with pulses and its influence on the subsequent wheat crop.", Mycorrhizae 2015, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada, May 8-9, 2015, pp. 11.

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  12. Chagnon, P.-L., Bainard, L.D. 2015. Using molecular biology to study mycorrhizal fungal community ecology: Limits and perspectives. Plant Signaling and Behaviour 10(7), e1046668.

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  13. Bainard, L.D., Dai, M., Gomez, E.F., Torres-Arias, Y., Bainard, J.D., Sheng, M., Eilers, W., Hamel, C. (2015). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities are influenced by agricultural land use and not soil type among the Chernozem great groups of the Canadian Prairies. Plant and Soil, [online] 387(1-2), 351-362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2288-1

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  14. Chagnon, P.L., Bainard, L.D. (2014). Is root DNA a reliable proxy to assess arbuscular mycorrhizal community structure?. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, [online] 60(9), 619-624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2014-0235

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  15. Bainard, L.D., Bainard, J.D., Hamel, C., Gan, Y. (2014). Spatial and temporal structuring of arbuscular mycorrhizal communities is differentially influenced by abiotic factors and host crop in a semi-arid prairie agroecosystem. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, [online] 88(2), 333-344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12300

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  16. Dai, M., Hamel, C., Bainard, L.D., Arnaud, M.S., Grant, C.A., Lupwayi, N.Z., Malhi, S.S., Lemke, R. (2014). Negative and positive contributions of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa to wheat production and nutrient uptake efficiency in organic and conventional systems in the Canadian prairie. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, [online] 74 156-166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.03.016

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  17. Ellouze, W., Taheri, A.E., Bainard, L.D., Yang, C., Bazghaleh, N., Navarro-Borrell, A., Hanson, K.G., and Hamel, C. (2015). "Soil fungal resources in annual cropping systems and their potential for management.", BioMed Research International, 2014(Article ID 531824), pp. 1-15. doi : 10.1155/2014/531824

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  18. Hamel, C., Bainard, L.D., Dai, M., and Yang, C. (2013). "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi assemblages in Chernozem great groups.", in Nelson, K.E. (ed.) - The Encyclopedia of Metagenomics, Springer.

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  19. Bainard, L.D., Koch, A.M., Gordon, A.M., Klironomos, J.N. 2013. Growth response of crops to soil microbial communities from conventional monocropping and tree-based intercropping systems. Plant and Soil 363(1), 345-356.

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  20. Dai, M., Bainard, L.D., Hamel, C., Gan, Y., Lynch, D. (2013). Impact of land use on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in rural Canada. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, [online] 79(21), 6719-6729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01333-13

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Research facility

6947 Highway 7
PO Box 1000
Agassiz, BC V0M 1A2
Canada

Language

English