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LOH Chiang Shiong
(Associate Professor)


Contact Information:
Dept of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore
Science Drive 4
Singapore 117543
Tel: 65162787
Fax: 67792486

email: dbslohcs@nus.edu.sg


PhD Camb., MSc Sing., BSc Nan

Research Interests:
  • How the nature's desalination invention (Plant Salt Glands) works?

  • How to induce early flowering of orchids and skip its long juvenile phase?

Awards:  

  • Honour Roll, Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards 2006/07
  • Honour Roll, Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards 2005/06
  • Winner, NUS Teaching Excellence Awards 2004/05
  • Winner, Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards 2004/05
  • Winner, NUS Excellent Teachers 2003/2004
  • Winner Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards 2003/04
  • Winner, NUS Excellent Teachers 2002/2003
  • Winner, Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2002/2003
  • Winner, Meritorious Award in Teaching, Faculty of Science, 2000
  • Winner, Meritorious Award in Teaching, Faculty of Science, 1999
  • Winner, Meritorious Award in Teaching, Faculty of Science, 1998
  • Runner-up, Teaching Award in Biological Sciences, 1997
  • Winner, Teaching Award in Plant Biology, 1996
  • Runner-up, Teaching Award in Botany, 1994
  • Winner, Teaching Award in Botany, 1993

Selected Publications:

  1. Sim GE, CS Loh, CJ Goh. High frequency early in vitro flowering of Dendrobium Madame Thong-In (Orchidaceae). Plant Cell Reports, 26 (2007) 383-393

  2. Khor, E and C S Loh, "Artifical seeds". In Applications of Cell Immobilization Biotechnology, ed. Viktor Hedovic; Ronnie Willaert, 527-537. Focus on Biotechnology, vol. 8B, comp. Marcel Hofman; Jozef Anne. Netherlands: Springer (2005).

  3. Yang, M and C S Loh, "Systemic endopolyploidy in Spathoglottis plicata (Orchidaceae) development". BMC Cell Biology, 5 (2004): 33 (8 pages)

  4. Joseph, R, H H Yeoh and C S Loh, "Induced mutations in cassava using somatic embryos and the identification of mutant plants with altered starch yield and composition". Plant Cell Reports , 23 (2004): 91- 98.

  5. Lim, W L and C S Loh, "Endopolyploidy in Vanda Miss Joaquim (Orchidaceae)". The New Phytologist , 159 (2003): 279-287.

  6. Loh, C S, W Shu and W L Koh, "Regeneration of plants via somatic embryogenesis". In Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry , 103-111. Springer, 2004.

  7. He, Y W and C S Loh, Induction of early bolting in Arabidopsis thaliana by tricontanol, cerium and lanthanum is correlated with increased endogenous concentration of isopentenyl adenosine (iPAdos). Journal of Experimental Botany, 53 (2002): 505-512.

  8. Koh, W L and C S Loh, Direct somatic embryogenesis, plant regeneration and in vitro flowering in rapid-cycling Brassica napus. Plant Cell Reports, 19 (2000): 1177-1183.

  9. He, Y W and C S Loh, Cerium and lanthanum promote floral initiation and reproductive growth of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Science, 159 (2000): 117-124.

  10. Joseph, T, H H Yeoh and C S Loh, Somatic embryogenesis, plant regeneration and cyanogenesis in Manihot glaziovii Muell. Arg (ceara rubber). Plant Cell Reports, 19 (2000): 535-538


embryoid.JPG (21698 bytes) Heart-shaped somatic embryoid of Brassica napus

 

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