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Jit Ern Chen

Head of the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Associate Professor …
Verified email at sunway.edu.my
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Regulation of algal and cyanobacterial auxin production, physiology, and application in agriculture: an overview

CY Tan, IC Dodd, JE Chen, SM Phang, CF Chin… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Algal bioproducts are of growing interest to agriculture because of their biodegradable nature,
ability to restore soil fertility, and capacity for plant growth regulation, nitrogen fixation, and …

A look at diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) in algae

JE Chen, AG Smith - Journal of biotechnology, 2012 - Elsevier
Triacylglycerols (TAGs) from algae are considered to be a potentially viable source of
biodiesel and thereby renewable energy, but at the moment very little is known about the …

Unfamiliar partnerships limit cnidarian holobiont acclimation to warming

…, S Campana, MJ Cziesielski, JE Chen… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancing the resilience of corals to rising temperatures is now a matter of urgency, leading
to growing efforts to explore the use of heat tolerant symbiont species to improve their …

Temperature transcends partner specificity in the symbiosis establishment of a cnidarian

M Herrera, SG Klein, S Campana, JE Chen… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Coral reef research has predominantly focused on the effect of temperature on the
breakdown of coral-dinoflagellate symbioses. However, less is known about how increasing …

Genetic transformation of the dinoflagellate chloroplast

IC Nimmo, AC Barbrook, I Lassadi, JE Chen, K Geisler… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.45292.001 Coral reefs are some of the most important and ecologically diverse
marine environments. At the base of the reef ecosystem are dinoflagellate algae, which …

[HTML][HTML] The genetic intractability of Symbiodinium microadriaticum to standard algal transformation methods

JE Chen, AC Barbrook, G Cui, CJ Howe, M Aranda - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Modern transformation and genome editing techniques have shown great success across a
broad variety of organisms. However, no study of successfully applied genome editing has …

Recent expansion of heat-activated retrotransposons in the coral symbiont Symbiodinium microadriaticum

JE Chen, G Cui, X Wang, YJ Liew, M Aranda - The ISME journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Rising sea surface temperature is the main cause of global coral reef decline. Abnormally high
temperatures trigger the breakdown of the symbiotic association between corals and their …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrient stress arrests tentacle growth in the coral model Aiptasia

N Rädecker, JE Chen, C Pogoreutz, M Herrera… - Symbiosis, 2019 - Springer
The symbiosis between cnidarians and dinoflagellate algae of the family Symbiodiniaceae
builds the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. The sea anemone Aiptasia is an emerging …

[PDF][PDF] Embracing the digital revolution for conservation in Borneo.

CS GOH, JITERN CHEN, R KAUR… - Malayan Nature …, 2022 - scholar.harvard.edu
The past few decades of land exploitation in the tropics, especially logging and agricultural
expansion to induce economic development, have resulted in massive deforestation and …

Planetary Health Diet in Malaysia: Recommendations for a Healthier Diet for Humans and the Planet

N Rajaram, YH Say, Y Norazharuddin, JE Chen… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Background: Food systems are important drivers of environmental change and are, in turn,
affected by the changing climate. Adopting a Planetary Health Diet (PHD) approach could …