Biography:
Rachel S-S Ko devotes herself in functional genomics studies in rice and orchid. She identified a key bHLH transcription factor in rice that is essential in rice pollen development. She is interested to carry out detail study on the molecular mechanism underlying pollen development, aiming to improve agriculture application of male sterility line for hybrid rice yield improvement.
Title : Tightly controlled expression of bHLH142 is essential for timely tapetal programmed cell death and pollen development in rice