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Peng-Wen Chen, Associate Professor




Peng-Wen Chen

Assistant professor


TEL: 05-2717747

Fax: 05-2717755

E-mail： steve669@mail.ncyu.edu.tw

Web site：http://web.ncyu.edu.tw/~steve669


Education

1992-1998, Ph.D. Degree in Plant Molecular Biology, Institute of Botany, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung,Taiwan, R.O.C.

1990-1992, M.S. Degree in Plant Molecular Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

1985-1989, B.S. Degree in Horticulture Science, Department of Horticulture, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Professional Experience

Feb. 2006-present, Assistant Professor, Department Bioagricultural Sciences, National Chiayi University

Oct. 1998- Jan. 2006, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mentor: Dr.Su-May Yu, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.


Professional Affiliations

The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)

The Botanical Society of Republic of China (BSROC)

The Chinese Society of Cell and Molecular Biology (SCMB)

The Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan (ACST)

The International Society for Plant Anaerobiosis (ISPA)

Courses Taught

Biology, Plant Growth Regulators, Plant Metabolism, Advanced Biotechnology, Signal Transduction of Biology, Gene Manipulation of Plant , and Seminar

Publications (Refereed journal papers)

  1. Kuo-Wei Lee, Peng-Wen Chen, and Su-May Yu*. (2014) Metabolic Adaptation to Sugar/O2 Deficiency for Anaerobic Germination and Seedling Growth in Rice. Plant Cell Environ. 37, 2234-2244. ( First two authors contributed equally; SCI IF:5.906, Ranking:10/196, Plant Sciences)

  2. Chung-Shen Wu, Wei-Tin Kuo, Chia-Yu Chang, Jun-Yi Kuo, Yi-Ting Tsai, Su-May Yu, Hsi-Ten Wu, and Peng-Wen Chen*. (2014) The modified rice aAmy8 promoter confers high-level foreign gene expression in a novel hypoxia-inducible expression system in transgenic rice seedlings. Plant Mol. Biol. 85, 147-161. (SCI IF:4.072; Ranking/ Category:19/196, Plant Sciences)

  3. Chung-Shen Wu, Dai-Yin Chen, Chung-Fu Chang, Min-Jeng Li, Kuei-Yu Hung, Liang-Jwu Chen, and Peng-Wen Chen*.(2014) The promoter and the 5’-untranslated region of rice metallothionein OsMT2b gene are capable of directing high-level gene expression in germinated rice embryos. Plant Cell Rep. 33, 798-806. (SCI IF: 2.936; Ranking/Category:39/196, Plant Sciences)

  4. Yong-Cheng Li, Chung-Hong Kao, Peng-Wen Chen*. (2014) Sugar Availability Plays an Important Role in Tolerance to Flooding during Seed Germination and Coleoptile Elongation in Rice. J. Agric. For. (NCYU) 11(1), 75-91.

  5. Jun-Yi Kuo, Wei-Tin Kuo, and Peng-Wen Chen*. (2013) Expression of Rice α-Amylase (αAmy3 Gene) Is Induced by Flooding and Repressed by Oxygen in Rice Seedling. Crop, Environment and Bioinformatics 10, 272-283.

  6. Ya-Fang Hong, Tuan-Hua David Ho, Chin-Feng Wu, Shin-Lon Ho, Rong-Hwei Yeh, Chung-An Lu, Peng-Wen Chen, Lin-Chih Yu, Annlin Chao, and Su-May Yu*. (2012) Convergent Starvation Signals and Hormone Crosstalk in Regulating Nutrient Mobilization upon Germination in Cereals. Plant Cell 24, 2857–2873. (SCI IF: 9.575; Ranking/Category:4/196, Plant Sciences)

  7. Chin-Fen Su, I-Chun Kuo, Peng-Wen Chen, Chiung-Hui Huang, See Voon Seow, Kaw Yan Chua, and Su-May Yu*. (2012) Characterization of an immunomodulatory Derp 2-FIP-fve fusion protein produced in transformed rice suspension cell. Transgenic Res. 21, 177-192. (SCI IF: 2.281; Ranking/Category: 75/165, Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology)

  8. Kuo-Wei Lee, Peng-Wen Chen, Chung-An Lu, Shu Chen, Tuan-Hua David Ho and Su-May Yu*. (2009) Coordinated Responses to Oxygen and Sugar Deficiency Allow Rice Seedlings to Tolerate Flooding. Sci. Signal. 2 (91), p. ra61. (SCI IF: 6.337; Ranking/Category: 36/291, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

  9. Peng-Wen Chen, Chih-Ming Chiang, Tung-Hi Tseng, and Su-May Yu*. (2006) Interaction between Rice MYBGA and the Gibberellin Response Element Controls Tissue-Specific Sugar Sensitivity of a-Amylase Genes. Plant Cell 18, 2326-2340. (SCI IF: 9.575; Ranking/Category:4/196, Plant Sciences)

  10. Peng-Wen Chen, Chung-An Lu, Tien-Shin Yu, Tung-Hi Tseng, Chang-Sheng Wang, and Su-May Yu*. (2002) Rice a-Amylase Transcriptional Enhancers Direct Multiple Mode Regulation of Promoters in Transgenic Rice. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 13641-13649. (SCI IF: 4.6; Ranking/Category: 65/291, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

  11. Lawrence S.H. Wu, Lian-Du Wang, Peng-Wen Chen, Liang-Jwu Chen, and Jason T.C. Tzen*. (1998) Genomic cloning of 18 kDa oleosin and detection of triacylglycerols and oleosin isoforms in maturing rice and post-germinative seedlings. J. Biochem.123: 386-391. (SCI IF: 3.073; Ranking/Category: 126/291, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

  12. Chen, P.W. and Chen, L.J.* (1997) Isolation of a cDNA clone (Accession No. U57638) encoding a type 2 metallothionein-like protein from rice embryo. (PGR 97-109) Plant Physiol. 114: 1568. (SCI)

  13. Fang, L.W., Chen, P.W. and Chen, L.J.* (1997) Genomic amplification of an anther-specific promoter fragment and its regulation for GUS gene expression in transgenic tobacco. J. Chinese Soc. Hort. Sci . 43: 196-207.

  14. Chen, P.W., Fang, L.W., Lin, J.W., Tsay, H.S., Wu, H.K., and Chen, L.J.* (1997) Isolation of cDNA clones for genes that are specifically expressed during embryogenesis in Oryza sativa. Bot. Bull. Academia Sinica 38: 13-20. (SCI)

  15. Chen, P.W., Chow S.H. and Chen, L.J.* (1997) Nucleotide Sequence of a cDNA (Accession No. U76004) Encoding Rice Bowman-Birk Proteinase Inhibitor. (PGR97-015) Plant Physiol. 113: 663. (SCI)

  16. Chen, P.W. and Chen, L.J.* (1996) A rice embryo-specific cDNA (Accession No. U57641) encoding a late embryogenesis abundant group 3 protein. (PGR96-049) Plant Physiol. 111:1353. (SCI)

  17. Chen, P.W., Chai, Y.J., Wang, L.D., Tzen, J. T. C., Tseng, M.J., and Chen, L.J.* (1996) Two embryo-specific cDNAs (Accession No. U43930 and U43931) encoding two oleosin isoforms on the surface of oil bodies from rice. (PGR95-143) Plant Physiol. 110: 714. (SCI)

  18. Gi, H.S., Hsieh, S.C., Chen, P.W. and Chen, L.J.* (1992) Construction and expression of vector that contain insecticidal crystal protein gene from Bacillus thuringiensis. Jour. Natl. Chiayi. Inst. Agric. 29: 77-70. 

Symposium Abstracts and Presentations
  1. Genesiska and Chen, P.W.* (2014) Identification and Characterization of Genes Expressions Being Significantly Altered Under Nitrogen Starvation Conditions in Rice Using Microarray Analysis.  In Abstracts of the 2014 Symposium on The 52th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan”,《D014》, #p154, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  2. Wu, J. S. and Chen, P.W.* (2014) Studies on the Molecular Mechanisms of Rice α-Amylase Gene Expression and Regulation under Flooding Stress. (水稻α-澱粉水解酵素基因受淹水逆境調控表現之分子機制研究) In Abstracts of the 2014 Symposium on “The 52th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan”,《D013》, #p154, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  3. Wu, C. S., Kuo, W.T., Chang, C.Y., Kuo, J.Y., Tsai, Y.T., Yu, S. M., Wu, H.T., and Chen, P.W.* (2013) The Hypoxia Response Complex in a-Amylase Promoters is Essential for Flooding Tolerance in Rice. In Abstracts of the “2013 Symposium on Modern Plant Science and Agricultural Technology. (中華植物學會第二十九屆第一次會員大會暨 2013 現代植物科學與農業科技研討會) , Oral presentation in the S-11, #p41, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  4. Wu, C. S., Kuo, W.T., Chang, C.Y., Kuo, J.Y., Tsai, Y.T., Yu, S. M., Wu, H.T., and Chen, P.W.* (2013) The Modified Rice aAmy8 Promoter Confers High-level Foreign Gene Expression in a Novel Hypoxia-inducible Expression System in Transgenic Rice Seedling. In Abstracts of the 2013 Symposium on “11th Conference of the International Society for Plant Anaerobiosis (ISPA)”. Poster Session: Rice responses to flooding and progress in breeding《112》, #p116, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Philippines.
  5. Wu, C. S., Chang, C.F., Li, M.J., Chen, D.Y., Hung, K.Y., Chen, L.J., and Chen, P.W.* (2013) Characterization of a Strongly Active Rice Metallothionein OsMT2b Gene Promoter in Germinated Rice Seed and Cell Culture. In Abstracts of the Plant Biology 2013 on the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). Poster Session 1: Applied Plant Biology P06031, #p71, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
  6. Chen, D.Y. and Chen, P.W.* (2013) Characterization and Functional Analysis of a Metallothionein Gene OsMT2b in Rice. In Abstracts of the 2013 Symposium on “The 51th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan”,《D001》, #p124, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  7. Tsai, Y.T. and Chen, P.W.* (2013) Studies on the Molecular Mechanism of Hypoxia-dependent Regulation of a-Amylase Gene Expression in Rice. In Abstracts of the 2013 Symposium on “The 51th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan” ,《D002》, #124,Taipei city, Taiwan.
  8. Chen, P.W.* (2012) A Modified Rice aAmy8 Promoter Significantly Enhances Hypoxia-inducible Expression of a Human Epidermal Growth Factor in Transgenic Rice Seedlings. In Abstracts of the 2012 Minisymposium on “ FRONTIERS IN CROPBIOTECHNOLOGY”, A joint symposium between Yangzhou University and Chiayi University (作物生物技術前瞻研討會), Oral presentation in the #p12-13, Chiayi city, Taiwan.
  9. Wu, C.S., Kuo, W.T., Kao,C.H., Chang, C.Y., Wu, H.-T., Yu, S.M.* and Chen, P.W.* (2012) A Modified Rice aAmy8 Promoter Significantly Enhances Hypoxia-inducible Expression of a Human Epidermal Growth Factor in Transgenic Rice Seedlings. In Abstracts of the 2012 Symposium on Innovative Plant Sciences (中華植物學會第二十八屆第二次會員大會暨 2012 植物科學前瞻學術研討會)《展-14》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  10. Wu, C.S., Kuo, W.T., Kao,C.H., Chang, C.Y., Wu, H.-T., Yu, S.M.* and Chen, P.W.*  (2012) A Modified Rice aAmy8 Promoter Significantly Enhances Hypoxia-inducible Expression of a Human Epidermal Growth Factor in Transgenic Rice Seedlings. In Abstracts of the 2012 Symposium on “The 10th  International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics《PE-05》, Chiangmai, Thailand.
  11. Ying, K.T. and Chen, P.W.* (2012) Studies on the construction of high-level expression systems for the production of foreign proteins in transgenic rice. In Abstracts of the 2012 Symposium on “The 50th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan” #p149,《D001》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  12. Chang, H.C. and Chen, P.W.* (2012) The transcription factor OsVP1 (Viviparous-1) plays a pivotal role in repression of α-amylase gene expression in rice. In Abstracts of the 2012 Symposium on “The 50th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan” #p150,《D004》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  13. Kuo, H.H. and Chen, P.W.* (2012) Studies on the characterization of miR-169 involved in tolerance to flooding during germination and early seedling growth in rice (Oryza sativa). In Abstracts of the 2012 Symposium on “The 50th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan” #p149,《D002》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  14. Wu, C.S., Chang, C.Y., Wu, H.T., Yu, S.M. and Chen, P.W.* (2011) Modified Rice αAmy8 Promoter for a Novel High-level Expression System of Foreign Gene in Submergence-grown Transgenic Rice Sprouts and Cell Cultures. In Abstracts of the Plant Biology 2011 on the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). Poster Session 1: Applied Plant Biology P01041, #p48, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  15. Chen, H.Y. and Chen, P.W.* (2011) Identification and Characterization of MicroRNA Involved in Tolerance to Flooding during Seed Germination and Early Seedling Growth in Rice (參與水稻種子發芽及初期幼苗生長淹水耐受性之microRNA 的篩選與特性分析). In Abstracts of the 2011 Symposium on “The 49th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan” #p128,《D005》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  16. Kuo, J.Y., Kuo, W.T. and Chen, P.W.* (2011) Studies on the Molecular Mechanisms of Hypoxia- dependent Regulation of α-Amylase (αAmy3) Gene Expression in Rice (水稻α-澱粉水解酵素基因αAmy3受低氧調控表現之分子機制研究). In Abstracts of the 2011 Symposium on “The 49th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan”  # p127,《D004》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  17. Chang, C.Y. and Chen, P.W.* (2010) Production of human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) in transgenic rice. In Abstracts of the 2010 Symposium on “The 48th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan” #p179,《D024》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  18. Kuo, W.T. and Chen, P.W.* (2010) Studies on the Molecular Mechanisms of Anoxia /Hypoxia-dependent Regulation of Rice α-Amylase Gene Expression during Germination and Seedling Development (水稻α-澱粉水解酵素基因在種子發芽及幼苗生長時期受缺氧/低氧調控之分子機制之研究). In Abstracts of the 2010 Symposium on “The 48th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan”  #p179,《D023》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  19. Chang, C.F. and Chen, P.W.* (2010) Characteristic and Functional Analysis of a Rice Metallothionein Gene OsMTe Expression in Rcie.  In Abstracts of the 2010 Symposium on “The 48th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan”  # p178,《D022》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  20. Li, Y.C. and Chen, P.W.* (2010) Regulation of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Expression under both Anoxia/Hypoxia and Sugar in Rice. In Abstracts of the 2010 Symposium on “The 48th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Taiwan”  #p178,《D021》, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  21. Li, M.J., Wu, C.S. and Chen, P.W.* (2009) Functional Dissection of the OsMTe Gene Promoter for Metallothionein in Rice Embryos. In Abstracts of the 2009 Symposium on “2009 International Conference on Agricultural Biotech Frontiers” #p37, Chiayi city, Taiwan.
  22. Hung, K.Y., Chen, L.J., Chung, M.C. and Chen, P.W.* (2009) Characterization and Functional Analysis of a Rice Metallothionein Gene OsMTe Expressed during Embryo Development and Seed Germination. In Abstracts of the 2009 Symposium on “2009 International Conference on Agricultural Biotech Frontiers” #p36, Chiayi city, Taiwan.
  23. Wu, C.S., and Chen, P.W.* (2008) Production of Human Epidermal Growth Factor in Transgenic Rice Seedling and Cell Culture. In Abstracts of the 2008 Symposium on “The Plant Molecular Biology.” # p37, Chiayi city, Taiwan.
  24. Li, M.J., and Chen, P.W.* (2008) Functional Dissection of the OsMTe Gene Promoter for Metallothionein in Rice Embryos. In Abstracts of the 2008 Symposium on “The Plant Molecular Biology.” # p51, Chiayi city, Taiwan.
  25. Hung, K.Y. and Chen, P.W.* (2008) Characterization and Functional Analysis of a Rice Metallothionein Gene OsMTe Expressed during Embryo Development and Seed Germination. In Abstracts of the 2008 Symposium on “The Plant Molecular Biology.”  #p58, Chiayi city, Taiwan.
  26. Hong, Y.F., Lu, C.H., Chen, P.W., Ho, T.H.D. and Yu, S.M.* (2007) Functional Genomics of Sugar and Hormone (GA and ABA) Cross Signaling in Rice. In Abstracts of the 2007 International Symposium on the Frontier Research in Model Plants. #p6, Academia Sinica, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  27. Chen, P.W., Chiang, C.M., Tseng, T.H. and Yu, S.M.* (2006) Interaction between Rice MYBGA and the Gibberellin Response Element Controls Tissue-Specific Sugar Sensitivity of a-Amylase Genes. In Abstracts of the 2006 Symposium on “The Plant Molecular Biology”. Oral presentation in the sessions III. #p175, Nantou, Taiwan.
  28. Chen, P.W. and Yu, S.M.* (2004) Sugar and gibberellin signals differentially modulate tissue-dependent promoter activity in germinating cereal grains. In Abstracts of the 2004 Symposium on the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). Session 64. Regulation of Gene Expression.  P763, #p170. Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.
  29. Chen, P.W. and Yu, S.M.* (2003) Sugar and gibberellin signals differentially modulate tissue-dependent promoter activity in germinating cereal grains. In Abstracts of the 2003 International symposium on Plant Functional Genomics. A20 #p46. Taipei city, Taiwan.
  30. Chen, P.W. and Yu, S.M.* (2002) G box and the duplicated TATCCA element enhance aAmy8 SRS/GARS activity in transgenic rice. In Abstracts of the 2002 Symposium on The 4th Asian-Pacific Organization for Cell Biology Congress (APOCB). Oral presentation in the mini-symposium sessions MS13. Plant Cell (II)-6 #p175. Taipei city, Taiwan.
  31. Chen, P.W. and Yu, S.M.* (2002) G box and the duplicated TATCCA element enhance aAmy8 SRS/GARS activity in transgenic rice. In Abstracts of the 2002 Symposium on The 16th Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB) P018 #p18. Taipei city, Taiwan.
  32. Chen, P.W. and Yu, S.M.* (2002) G box and the duplicated TATCCA element enhance aAmy8 SRS/GARS activity in transgenic rice. In Abstracts of the 2002 Symposium on Plant Molecular Genetics #p14. Tainan, Taiwan.
  33. Chen, P.W., Lu, C.A., Yu, T. S., Tseng, T. H., Wang, C. S., and Yu, S.M.* (2001) The rice alpha-amylase transcriptional enhancer direct multiple mode regulation of promoters in transgenic rice and reveal a cross-talk between the sugar and gibberellin signaling pathways. In Abstracts of the International Symposium on Plant Environment Interactions: Genes, Proteins, and Biotechnology #P55, Taipei city, Taiwan.
  34. Chen, P.W. and Yu, S.M.* (2000) Sugar response sequence in the promoter of a rice alpha-amylase gene serves as a transcriptional enhancer. In Abstracts of the Sixth International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology #S3-95, Quebec, Canada
  35. Chen, P.W., Chai, Y.J. Wang, L.D., Chow, S.H., Tseng, M.J., Lin, J.W., Tsay, H.S., Wu, S.K., and Chen, L.J.* (1996). Isolation of cDNA clones for genes that are specifically expressed in the rice embryo. In Abstracts of the Fifth International Symposium on Rice Molecular Biology. # 3-10, Taiwan.
  36. Chen, P.W., Tzeng, C.C., Kao, S.S., Tsay, H.S., and Chen, L.J.* (1993).  Breeding for insect tolerant transgenic plants by using insecticidal crystal protein genes from Bacillus thuringiensis. The 7th International Congress, Taiwan.