Wai Kuan Ho

Contact

• workMalaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8725 3616
• WaiKuan.Ho@nottingham.edu.my

Research Summary

Wai Kuan's research area includes genetic improvement in crops, particularly on molecular mechanisms underlying genetic control of agronomic traits. Having experience in biomarker development in oil… read more

Recent Publications

• AHMAD, N.S., BASU, S., HO, W.K., MASSAWE, F. AND MAYES, S., 2015. Exploring the domestication of Bambara groundnut In: International Horticultural Congress.
• CHAI, H.H., STADLER, F., MORETON, J., HO, W.K., MAYES, K., MASSAWE, F. and MAYES, S., 2015. Resilience traits in under-utilised crops: Drought tolerance in Bambara groundnut In: Plant and Animal Genome XXIII Conference. January 10-14, 2015. San Diego, CA..
• FJ MASSAWE, S MAYES, A CHENG, HH CHAI, P CLEASBY, R SYMONDS, WK HO, A SIISE, QN WONG, P KENDABIE, Y YANUSA, N JAMALLUDDIN, A SINGH, R AZMAN, SN AZAM-ALI, 2015. The Potential for Underutilised Crops to Improve Food Security in the Face of Climate Change In: Procedia Environmental Sciences. 29. 140-141
• SEAN MAYES, PRESIDOR KENDABIE, WAI KUAN HO, FESTO MASSAWE and SAYED AZAM-ALI, 2015. Increasing the contribution that underutilised crops could make to food security – Bambara groundnut as an example. Aspects of Applied Biology: Breeding Plants to Cope with Future Climate Change. 124, 63–70

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Current Research

Wai Kuan's research area includes genetic improvement in crops, particularly on molecular mechanisms underlying genetic control of agronomic traits. Having experience in biomarker development in oil palm to predict embryogenesis potential, her current interest is currently focusing on functional genomic and transcriptomic studies to assist in crop breeding programmes.

• AHMAD, N.S., BASU, S., HO, W.K., MASSAWE, F. AND MAYES, S., 2015. Exploring the domestication of Bambara groundnut In: International Horticultural Congress.
• CHAI, H.H., STADLER, F., MORETON, J., HO, W.K., MAYES, K., MASSAWE, F. and MAYES, S., 2015. Resilience traits in under-utilised crops: Drought tolerance in Bambara groundnut In: Plant and Animal Genome XXIII Conference. January 10-14, 2015. San Diego, CA..
• FJ MASSAWE, S MAYES, A CHENG, HH CHAI, P CLEASBY, R SYMONDS, WK HO, A SIISE, QN WONG, P KENDABIE, Y YANUSA, N JAMALLUDDIN, A SINGH, R AZMAN, SN AZAM-ALI, 2015. The Potential for Underutilised Crops to Improve Food Security in the Face of Climate Change In: Procedia Environmental Sciences. 29. 140-141
• SEAN MAYES, PRESIDOR KENDABIE, WAI KUAN HO, FESTO MASSAWE and SAYED AZAM-ALI, 2015. Increasing the contribution that underutilised crops could make to food security – Bambara groundnut as an example. Aspects of Applied Biology: Breeding Plants to Cope with Future Climate Change. 124, 63–70
• AB FELDMAN, S MAYES, P KENDABIE, WK HO, R AZMAN, FJ MASSAWE and SN AZAM-ALI, 2015. Challenges facing genetically improving underutilised crops: Progress in bambara groundnut In: International Symposium on Underutilised Plant Species (ISUPS).
• WK HO, S MAYES and SN AZAM-ALI, 2015. Bridging the application of agricultural knowledge to crops in the field In: The 22nd Annual Malaysian Society for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (MSMBB) Meeting.
• CHAI, H.H., HO, W.K., STADLER, S., MASSAWE, F., MAY, S., KILIAN A. and MAYES, S., 2014. Towards the understanding of agronomic traits in underutilised crops In: International Horticultural Congress.
• KENDABIE, P., CHAI, H.H., AHMAD, N.S., WONG, Q.N., HO, W.K., KILIAN, A., MASSAWE, F. AND MAYES, S., 2014. Exploring the potential of underutilised crops: bambara groundnut as exemplar In: The 4th Johor Biotechnology Conference.
• HO W.K., OOI S.E., MAYES S., NAMASIVAYAM P., ONG-ABDULLAH M. and CHIN C.F., 2013. Methylation levels of a novel genetic element, EgNB3 as a candidate biomarker associated with the embryogenic competency of oil palm Tree Genetics and Genomes. 9(4), 1099-1107
• MAYES, S., MASSAWE, F., HO, W.K., CHAI, H.H., GRAHAM, N., MORETON, J., BLYTHE, M., MAY, S., AND AZAM-ALI, S., 2013. Strategies for translation of tools and information from model plant and major crop species to underutilised crops In: International Conference on Crop Improvement, Kuala Lumpur.
• HO, W.K., MORETON, J., BLYTHE, M., MASSAWE, F., KILIAN, A., AND MAYES, S., 2013. Utilisation of advanced technologies in understanding minor crops In: International Conference on Crop Improvement, Kuala Lumpur.
• CHIN CF, HO WK, ONG-ABDULLAH M, OOI SE, MAYES S AND NAMASIVAYAM P, 2010. Development of biomarkers for screening oil palm tissue culture clones In: Paper presented at ISOPB, Yogjakarta, Indonesia.
• HO WK, CHIN, CF, OOI SE, MAYES S, MEILINA O-B AND NAMASIVAYAM P, 2008. Candidate Molecular Markers Associated With Prolific Clones of Oil Palm In: 17th MSMBB Scientific Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• HO, W.K., CHEN, H.H. AND KAN, M.S., 2006. The cloning of the xylose isomerase gene (xylA) from Bacillus subtilis through oligonucleotide primers directed PCR amplification In: The Proceedings of the National Seminar on Science, Technology and Social Sciences, Kuantan.