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Tuan-Hua David Ho

Tuan-Hua David Ho

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
14229
World Ranking
13049
National Ranking
62

Overview

Tuan-Hua David Ho is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan and conducts research primarily in the Agricultural and Biological Sciences with a focus on Plant Science. Their work spans related subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics. The scientist's research topics concentrate on plant responses to water stress, plant stress responses and tolerance, rice cultivation and yield improvement, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, biofuel production and bioconversion, enzyme production and characterization, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

Their recent publications reflect these interests and include:

  • Rice Big Grain 1 promotes cell division to enhance organ development, stress tolerance and grain yield, 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Molecular weight, chain length distribution and long-term retrogradation of cassava starch modified by amylomaltase, 2022, Food Hydrocolloids
  • An Intrinsically Disordered Protein Interacts with the Cytoskeleton for Adaptive Root Growth under Stress, 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • A newly evolved rice-specific gene JAUP1 regulates jasmonate biosynthesis and signalling to promote root development and multi-stress tolerance, 2024, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • From simple and specific zymographic detections to the annotation of a fungus Daldinia caldariorum D263 that encodes a wide range of highly bioactive cellulolytic enzymes, 2021, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tuan-Hua David Ho include:

  • Su-May Yu (11 publications)
  • Shuen-Fang Lo (4 publications)
  • Yue-Ie Hsing (4 publications)
  • Yi-Shih Chen (3 publications)
  • Cheng-Chieh Wu (3 publications)

Primary publication venues include Plant Biotechnology Journal with three publications, followed by Rice with two, and single publications in Food Hydrocolloids, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, and BMC Biology.

Best Publications

  • Expression of a Late Embryogenesis Abundant Protein Gene, HVA1, from Barley Confers Tolerance to Water Deficit and Salt Stress in Transgenic Rice

    Deping Xu;Xiaolan Duan;Baiyang Wang;Bimei Hong

  • Common amino acid sequence domains among the LEA proteins of higher plants.

    Leon Dure;Martha Crouch;John Harada;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • Improved biomass productivity and water use efficiency under water deficit conditions in transgenic wheat constitutively expressing the barley HVA1 gene

    Elumalai Sivamani;Ahmed Bahieldin;Jon M Wraith;Thamir Al-Niemi

  • A Rice WRKY Gene Encodes a Transcriptional Repressor of the Gibberellin Signaling Pathway in Aleurone Cells

    Zhong-Lin Zhang;Zhen Xie;Xiaolu Zou;Jose Casaretto

  • Functional dissection of an abscisic acid (ABA)-inducible gene reveals two independent ABA-responsive complexes each containing a G-box and a novel cis-acting element.

    Qingxi Shen;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • Modular nature of abscisic acid (ABA) response complexes: composite promoter units that are necessary and sufficient for ABA induction of gene expression in barley.

    Qingxi Shen;Pengnian Zhang;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • Alteration of Gene Expression During Environmental Stress in Plants

    Martin M. Sachs;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • Source-Sink Communication: Regulated by Hormone, Nutrient, and Stress Cross-Signaling.

    Su-May Yu;Su-May Yu;Shuen-Fang Lo;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • Gibberellin/Abscisic Acid Antagonism in Barley Aleurone Cells: Site of Action of the Protein Kinase PKABA1 in Relation to Gibberellin Signaling Molecules

    Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas;Rodolfo Zentella;Mary Kay Walker-Simmons;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • Three Novel MYB Proteins with One DNA Binding Repeat Mediate Sugar and Hormone Regulation of α-Amylase Gene Expression

    Chung An Lu;Tuan Hua David Ho;Shin Lon Ho;Su May Yu

  • Coordinated Responses to Oxygen and Sugar Deficiency Allow Rice Seedlings to Tolerate Flooding

    Kuo Wei Lee;Peng Wen Chen;Chung An Lu;Shu Chen

  • An abscisic acid-induced protein kinase, PKABA1, mediates abscisic acid-suppressed gene expression in barley aleurone layers

    Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas;Steven D. Verhey;Lynn D. Holappa;Qingxi Shen

  • Transgenic approaches to increase dehydration-stress tolerance in plants.

    Shavindra Bajaj;Jayaprakash Targolli;Li-Fei Liu;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • Heat shock proteins in maize.

    Pam Cooper;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • Cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding a mRNA rapidly-induced by ABA in barley aleurone layers.

    Bimei Hong;Scott J. Uknes;Tuan-hua David Ho

  • A gibberellin response complex in cereal alpha-amylase gene promoters.

    Michael B. Lanahan;Tuan-Hua David Ho;Sally W. Rogers;John C. Rogers

  • Developmental and organ-specific expression of an ABA- and stress-induced protein in barley.

    Bimei Hong;Rivka Barg;Tuan-hua David Ho

  • Cis -regulatory element based targeted gene finding: genome-wide identification of abscisic acid- and abiotic stress-responsive genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Weixiong Zhang;Jianhua Ruan;Tuan-Hua David Ho;Youngsook You

  • Hormonal regulation, processing, and secretion of cysteine proteinases in barley aleurone layers.

    Susan M. Koehler;Tuan-Hua David Ho

  • The Transcription Factors HvABI5 and HvVP1 Are Required for the Abscisic Acid Induction of Gene Expression in Barley Aleurone Cells

    Jose Casaretto;Tuan-hua David Ho

Frequent Co-Authors

Su-May Yu
Su-May Yu Academia Sinica
Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas
Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas Jaume I University
Ray Wu
Ray Wu Cornell University
Ralph S. Quatrano
Ralph S. Quatrano Washington University in St. Louis
Andrew H.-J. Wang
Andrew H.-J. Wang Academia Sinica
M. K. Walker-Simmons
M. K. Walker-Simmons United States Department of Agriculture
Henry T. Nguyen
Henry T. Nguyen University of Missouri
Faith C. Belanger
Faith C. Belanger Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ming-Tsair Chan
Ming-Tsair Chan Academia Sinica
Lam-Son Phan Tran
Lam-Son Phan Tran Texas Tech University

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