Publications
Yen-Ning Chen and Cheng-Hsun Ho* (2023) 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* (2023) Fluorescent Biosensor Imaging of Nitrate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bio-protocol, 13(16): e4743. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4743. |
Yen-Ning Chen, Heather Cartwright, Cheng-Hsun Ho* (2022) 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* (2022) In vivo visualization of nitrate dynamics using a genetically encoded fluorescent biosensor. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 8(42), eabq4915. |
Yen-Ning Chen and Cheng-Hsun Ho*. (2022) Concept of Fluorescent Transport Activity Biosensor for the Characterization of the Arabidopsis NPF13 Activity of Nitrate. Sensors, vol. 22,3 1198. |
Mayuri Sadoine, Yuuma Ishikawa, Thomas J. Kleist, Michael M. Wudick, Masayoshi Nakamura, Guido Grossmann, Wolf B. Frommer, Cheng-Hsun Ho*. (2021) Designs, applications, and limitations of genetically encoded fluorescent sensors to explore plant biology. Plant Physiology, Volume 187, Issue 2, Pages 485–503, |
Hui-Yu Chen, Yen-Ning Chen, Hung-Yu Wang, Zong-Ta Liu, Wolf B. Frommer & Cheng-Hsun Ho* (2020) 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. (2020) Current status of the multinational Arabidopsis community. Plant Direct, 4(7), e00248. |
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*. (2019) 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. (2019) From Bench to Bountiful Harvests. Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC) Annual Report.. Plant Direct., 5, 1-53 |
Ast, C., Foret, J., Oltrogge, L.M., De Michele, R., Kleist, T.J., Ho, C.H., & Frommer, W.B. (2017) Ratiometric Matryoshka biosensors from a nested cassette of green- and orange-emitting fluorescent proteins. Nature Communications, 8(1), 431. |
Cheng-Hsun Ho*. & Wolf B. Frommer (2016) Design and Functional Analysis of Fluorescent Nitrate and Peptide Transporter Activity Sensors in Yeast Cultures. Bio-Protocol, 6, Iss3. |
Ho, C.H. & Frommer, W.B. (2014) 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. (2014) Border control--a membrane-linked interactome of Arabidopsis. Science, 344(6185), 711–716. |
Jones, A.M., Grossmann, G., Danielson, J.Å., Sosso, D., Chen, L.Q., Ho, C.H., & Frommer, W.B. (2013) 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. (2013) Fluorescent sensors reporting the activity of ammonium transceptors in live cells. eLife, 2, e00800. |
Tsay, Y.F., Ho, C.H., Chen, H.Y., & Lin, S.H. (2011) Integration of nitrogen and potassium signaling. Annual review of plant biology, 62, 207–226. |
Ho, C.H. & Tsay, Y.F. (2010) Nitrate, ammonium, and potassium sensing and signaling. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 13(5), 604–610. |
Ho, C.H., Lin, S.H., Hu, H.C., & Tsay, Y.F. (2009) CHL1 functions as a nitrate sensor in plants. Cell, 138(6), 1184-1194. |
Tsay, Y.F., Chiu, C.C., Tsai, C.B., Ho, C.H., & Hsu, P.K. (2007) Nitrate transporters and peptide transporters . FEBS letters, 581(12), 2290–2300. |

Cheng-Hsun Ho
Associate Research Fellow
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2024-present
Associate Research Fellow, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center (ABRC), Academia Sinica
2015-2024
Assistant Research Fellow, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center (ABRC), Academia Sinica
2011-2015
Senior Research Associate, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford
2009-2011
Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Fellow, Institution of Molecular Biology (IMB), Academia Sinica
2004-2009
Ph.D. Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica/Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center
2002-2004
M.S. Institution of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University