Cheng-Hsun Ho

Cheng-Hsun Ho

Associate Research Fellow

Watching Biochemistry in Living Plants- Decoding the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Plant Nutrition through Biosensors
Watching Biochemistry in Living Plants- Decoding the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Plant Nutrition through Biosensors

Publications

2025

Brady Siobhan, Auge Gabriela, Ayalew Mentewab, Balasubramanian Sureshkumar, Hamann Thorsten, Inze Dirk, Saito Kazuki, Brychkova Galina, Berardini Tanya Z., Friesner Joanna, ( Ho Cheng‐Hsun ), Hauser Marie‐Theres, Kobayashi Masatomo, Lepiniec Loic, Mähönen Ari Pekka, Mutwil Marek, May Sean, Parry Geraint, Rigas Stamatis, Stepanova Anna N., Williams Mary, Provart Nicholas J.
Arabidopsis research in 2030: Translating the computable plant. The Plant Journal , 121(5), 1-10

2023

Yen-Ning Chen and Cheng-Hsun Ho *
CIPK15-mediated inhibition of NH4+ transport protects Arabidopsis from submergence. HELIYON , Volume 9, Issue 9, e20235, ISSN 2405-8440, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20235
Yen-Ning Chen and Cheng-Hsun Ho *
Fluorescent Biosensor Imaging of Nitrate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bio-protocol , 13(16): e4743. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4743.

2022

Yen-Ning Chen, Heather Cartwright, Cheng-Hsun Ho *
In vivo visualization of nitrate dynamics using a genetically encoded biosensor. BioRxiv , preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.29.505680
Yen-Ning Chen, Heather N. Cartwright, and Cheng-Hsun Ho *
In vivo visualization of nitrate dynamics using a genetically encoded fluorescent biosensor. SCIENCE ADVANCES , 8(42), eabq4915.
Yen-Ning Chen and Cheng-Hsun Ho *.
Concept of Fluorescent Transport Activity Biosensor for the Characterization of the Arabidopsis NPF13 Activity of Nitrate. Sensors , vol. 22,3 1198.

2021

Mayuri Sadoine, Yuuma Ishikawa, Thomas J. Kleist, Michael M. Wudick, Masayoshi Nakamura, Guido Grossmann, Wolf B. Frommer, Cheng-Hsun Ho *.
Designs, applications, and limitations of genetically encoded fluorescent sensors to explore plant biology. Plant Physiology , Volume 187, Issue 2, Pages 485–503,

2020

Hui-Yu Chen, Yen-Ning Chen, Hung-Yu Wang, Zong-Ta Liu, Wolf B. Frommer & Cheng-Hsun Ho *
Feedback inhibition of AMT1 NH4+-transporters mediated by CIPK15 kinase . BMC Biology , 18(1), 196.
Geraint Parry, Nicholas J Provart, Siobhan M Brady, Baris Uzilday, Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee Cheng-Hsun Ho et al.
Current status of the multinational Arabidopsis community. Plant Direct , 4(7), e00248.

2019

Marta Michniewicz, Cheng-Hsun Ho , Tara A Enders, Eric Floro, Suresh Damodaran, Lauren K Gunther, Samantha K Powers, Elizabeth M Frick, Christopher N Topp, Wolf B Frommer, Lucia C Strader*.
TRANSPORTER OF IBA1 Links Auxin and Cytokinin to Influence Root Architecture. Developmental Cell , 50(5), 599–609.e4.
Wagner Araújo
, María Francisca, Blanco
Dario Bonetta
, Lynette Brownfield
, Ana I. Caño-Delgado
, Maura Cardarelli, 
Eunyoung Chae
, Maria E. Eriksson
, Joanna D. Friesner
, Thorsten Hamann, 
Klaus Harter, 
Marie-Theres Hauser
, Cheng-Hsun Ho , 
Hanna Horek
, Inhwan Hwang, 
Liina Jakobson
, Yuling Jiao, 
Yunhe Jiang, Masatomo Kobayashi
, Jitendra P. Khurana
, Loic Lepiniec
, Robert Malinowski
, Minami Matsui
, José Luis Micol
, Monika Murcha
, Moritz K. Nowack, 
Adriano Nunes-Nesi, 
Michael Palmgren, 
Catherine Perrot-
Rechenmann, Nicholas Provart, Stamatis Rigas, 
Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Motoaki Seki
, Charles Spillane, Kentaro K. Shimizu, Ramamurthy Srinivasan, Misako Yamazaki, Marcelo J. Yanovsky, Viktor Žárský.
From Bench to Bountiful Harvests. Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC) Annual Report.. Plant Direct. , 5, 1-53

2017

Ast, C., Foret, J., Oltrogge, L.M., De Michele, R., Kleist, T.J., Ho, C.H. , & Frommer, W.B.
Ratiometric Matryoshka biosensors from a nested cassette of green- and orange-emitting fluorescent proteins. Nature Communications , 8(1), 431.

2016

Cheng-Hsun Ho *. & Wolf B. Frommer
Design and Functional Analysis of Fluorescent Nitrate and Peptide Transporter Activity Sensors in Yeast Cultures. Bio-Protocol , 6, Iss3.

2014

Ho, C.H. & Frommer, W.B.
Fluorescent sensors for activity and regulation of the nitrate transceptor CHL1/NRT1.1 and oligopeptide transporters.. eLife , 3, e01917.
Jones, A.M., Xuan, Y., Xu, M., Wang, R.S., Ho, C.H. , Lalonde, S., You, C.H., Sardi, M.I., Parsa, S.A., Smith-Valle, E., Su, T., Frazer, K.A., Pilot, G., Pratelli, R., Grossmann, G., Acharya, B.R., Hu, H.C., Engineer, C., Villiers, F., Ju, C., Takeda, K., Zhao, SU., Dong, Q.F., Assmann, S.M., Chen, J., Kwak, J.M., Schroeder, J.I., Albert, R., Rhee, S.Y., &Frommer, W. B.
Border control--a membrane-linked interactome of Arabidopsis. Science , 344(6185), 711–716.

2013

Jones, A.M., Grossmann, G., Danielson, J.Å., Sosso, D., Chen, L.Q., Ho, C.H. , & Frommer, W.B.
In vivo biochemistry: applications for small molecule biosensors in plant biology . Current opinion in plant biology , 16(3), 389–395.
De Michele, R., Ast, C., Loqué, D., Ho, C.H. , Andrade, S., Lanquar, V., Grossmann, G., Gehne, S., Kumke, M.U., & Frommer, W.B.
Fluorescent sensors reporting the activity of ammonium transceptors in live cells. eLife , 2, e00800.

2011

Tsay, Y.F., Ho, C.H. , Chen, H.Y., & Lin, S.H.
Integration of nitrogen and potassium signaling. Annual review of plant biology , 62, 207–226.

2010

Ho, C.H. & Tsay, Y.F.
Nitrate, ammonium, and potassium sensing and signaling. Current Opinion in Plant Biology , 13(5), 604–610.

2009

Ho, C.H. , Lin, S.H., Hu, H.C., & Tsay, Y.F.
CHL1 functions as a nitrate sensor in plants. Cell , 138(6), 1184-1194.

2007

Tsay, Y.F., Chiu, C.C., Tsai, C.B., Ho, C.H. , & Hsu, P.K.
Nitrate transporters and peptide transporters . FEBS letters , 581(12), 2290–2300.