Dr Albert Wong

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Centre for Horticultural Science
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Overview

Research Interests

  • Plant tissue culture
    Development of plant tissue culture protocols for commercial and emerging crops, and for conservation of endangered native plant species.
  • Plant biotechnology and molecular biology
    Exploring gene editing technologies in cereal and horticulture crops to improve yield, sustainability and adaptation to stresses.

Qualifications

  • Member, Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS), Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS)
  • Member, American Society of Plant Biologist, American Society of Plant Biologist
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Biotechnology, University of Tasmania

Publications

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Wong, Albert Chern Sun, Lam, Yasmine, Hintzsche, Jessica, Restall, Jemma and Godwin, Ian D. (2022). Genome editing towards sorghum improvement. Genome Editing Technologies for Crop Improvement. (pp. 295-321) edited by Kaijun Zhao, Rukmini Mishra and Raj Kumar Joshi. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-19-0600-8_14

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Wong, Albert Chern Sun, Hu, Zhangpan, Hiti-Bandaralage, Jayeni, O'Brien, Chris, Hayward, Alice and Mitter, Neena (2022). Novel Propagation Technologies for Australian Macadamia. International Agriculture Conference (TropAg 2022), Brisbane, Australia, 31 October - 2 November 2022. doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.7672445

  • Wong, Albert Chern Sun, Godwin, Ian D., van Oosterom, Erik J. and Borrell, Andrew K. (2021). Discovering the genetic blueprint for designing drought-adapted crops. Plant Biology Worldwide Summit 2021, Virtual, 19 - 23 July 2021. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7277031

  • Borrell, Andrew, George-Jaeggli, Barbara, Oosterom, Erik van, Hammer, Graeme, Mace, Emma, Godwin, Ian, Liu, Guoquan, Wong, Albert, Matiwos, Temesgen, Bantte, Kassahun, Christopher, Jack, Hickey, Lee, Richard, Cecile, Robinson, Hannah and Jordan, David (2020). How do crops balance water supply and demand when water is limiting?. The Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference TropAg 2019 , Brisbane, QLD Australia, 11–13 November 2019. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. doi: 10.3390/proceedings2019036208

  • Borrell, Andrew, George-Jaeggli, Barbara, van Oosterom, Erik, Hammer, Graeme, Mace, Emma, Godwin, Ian, Liu, G., Wong, Albert, Temesgen, M., Kassahun, B., Christopher, Jack, Hickey, Lee, Richard, Cecile, Robinson, Hannah and Jordan, David (2019). Canopy and root plasticity for drought adaptation in cereals. Climate Change Linked Stress Tolerance in Plants (M4) (Keystone Symposia), Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany, 13-16 May 2019.

  • Borrell, Andrew, George-Jaeggli, Barbara, van Oosterom, Erik, Hammer, Graeme, Godwin, Ian, Liu, G., Wong, Albert, Hunt, Colleen and Jordan, David (2019). Drought adaptation in sorghum: scaling-up from gene to farmer's field. Australian Summer Grains Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 8-10 July 2019.

Other Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision