Department of Horticulture and Biotechnology

Personal Information

Name: Ming-Hau Chiang

Phone: 886-2-28610511 ext. 31121

E-mail: jmh2@ulive.pccu.edu.tw

Education

Ph.D. Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan.

M.S. Department of Horticulture, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

B.S. Department of Horticulture, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.

Work Experience

Assistant Professor. The Department of Horticulture and Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan, 2021 ~ present.

Postdoctoral fellow. Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Postdoctoral fellow. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Research Interest

Plant hormone physiology

Plant stress physiology

Molecular breeding

Project

Identification of molecular markers linked to the trait of natural astringency loss of Japanese persimmon fruit which will facilitate the breeding progress of low-chill persimmon (111AS-1.3.2-ST-a1). 2022. One-year project of COA.

Course

Biochemistry (3 credits) and Laboratory Exercise (1 credit)

Plant Protection (2 credits)

Plant Growth and Differentiation (2 credits)

Processing of Horticultural Crops (2 credits) and Laboratory Exercise (1 credit)

Off-Season Production of Horticultural Crops (2 credits)

Urban Horticulture (2 credits)

Introduction to Bioinformatics (2 credits)

The cross-disciplinary course: Horticultural Ecology (2 credits)

Publication

Scientific paper

1. Bo-Han Hou, Yi-Heng Tsai, Ming-Hau Chiang, Shu-Ming Tsao, Shih-Hung Huang, Chih-Ping Chao, and Ho-Ming Chen. 2022. Cultivar-specific markers, mutations, and chimerism of Cavendish banana somaclonal variants resistant to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4. BMC Genomics 23: 470 (SCI).
2. Hung-Chi Chen, Tzu-Cheng Chien, Tsung‑Yang Chen, Ming‑Hau Chiang, Ming‑Hsin Lai, and Men‑Chi Chang. 2021. Overexpression of a novel ERF-X-type transcription factor, OsERF106MZ, reduces shoot growth and tolerance to salinity stress in rice. Rice 14: 82 (SCI).
3. Pei-Jung Hsu, Mei-Chen Tan, Ya-Huei Chen, Hwei-Ling Shen, Ya-Ying Wang, San-Gwang Hwang, Ming-Hau Chiang, Quang-Vuong Le, Wen-Shuo Kuo, Yin-Chan Chou, Shih-Yun Lin, Guang-Yuh Jauh, and Wan-Hsing Cheng. 2021. The Nucleolar SAHY1 is Involved in Pre-rRNA Processing and Normal Plant Growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 185: 1039–1058 (SCI).
4. Ming-Hau Chiang, Hwei-Ling Shen, Wan-Hsing Cheng. 2015. Genetic analyses of the interaction between abscisic acid and gibberellins in the control of leaf development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Sci. 236: 260-271 (SCI).
5. San-Gwang Hwang, Nai-Chun Lin, Yi-Yun Hsiao, Ching-Hsuan Kuo, Pi-Fang Chang, Wen-Ling Deng, Ming-Hau Chiang, Hwei-Ling Shen, Chao-Ying Chen, Wan-Hsing Cheng. 2012. The Arabidopsis short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase 3, an ABSCISIC ACID DEFFICIENT 2 homolog, is involved in plant defense responses but not in ABA biosynthesis. Plant Physiol Biochem. 51:63-73 (SCI).
6. Wan-Hsing Cheng, Ming-Hau Chiang, San-Gwang Hwang, and Pei-Chi Lin. 2009. Antagonism between abscisic acid and ethylene in Arabidopsis acts in parallel with the reciprocal regulation of their metabolism and signaling pathways. Plant Mol. Biol. 71: 61-80 (SCI).

Poster

1. Yu-Chien Tseng, Yee-Wen Chan, Wan-Hsing Cheng, and Ming-Hau Chiang. 2022. Functional characterization and mapping of the ABA2 SUPPRESSOR 2 gene in Arabidopsis. The annual conference of the Taiwan Society for Horticultural Science, Taichung, Taiwan.
2. Ming-Hau Chiang, Chia-Yun Lee, Mei-Chan Tan, Yu-Chun Chu, and Wan-Hsing Cheng. 2021. Identification and characterization of abscisic acid deficient 2 suppressors involved in ABA, sugar, and salinity signaling crosstalk in Arabidopsis. Poster. The annual conference of the Taiwan Society for Horticultural Science, Yilan, Taiwan.

Dissertation

1. Ming-Hau Chiang and Wan-Hsing Cheng. 2015. Study of functional interaction between abscisic acid and gibberellins in the control of leaf development in Arabidopsis. The doctoral dissertation of the Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center.

Ming-Hau Chiang and Chung Chen. 2002. Bud dormancy in low-chill peach. The master thesis of the Department of Hort