Dr Chai Hui Hui

RESEARCH THEME COORDINATOR
CROP IMPROVEMENT AND PRODUCTION
huihui.chai@cffresearch.org

Dr Chai Hui Hui received her PhD from University of Nottingham. Her area of interest includes exploitation of plant water relations (drought), genetic analysis of agronomic traits and using tools developed in major or model plant species for analysis in underutilised crop species. 
 
Latest publications :
 
1. KHAN, F., CHAI, H.H., AJMERA, I., HODGMAN, C., MAYES, S., LU, C., 2017. A transcriptomic comparison of two bambara groundnut landraces under dehydration stress. Genes 8 (4), 121; doi:10.3390/genes8040121. 
 
2. CHAI, H.H., HO, W.K., GRAHAM, N., MAY, S., MASSAWE, F., MAYES, S., 2017. A cross-species gene expression marker-based genetic map and QTL analysis in bambara groundnut. Genes 8 (2), 84; doi:10.3390/genes8020084.
 
3. HO, W.K., CHAI, H.H., KENDABIE, P., AHMAD, N.S, JANI, J., MASSAWE, F., KILIAN, A., MAYES, S., 2017. Integrating genetic maps in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) and their syntenic relationships among closely related legumes. BMC Genomics 18 (1), 192; doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-3393-8
 
4. CHAI, H.H., MASSAWE, F. and MAYES, S., 2015. Effects of mild drought stress on the morpho-physiological characteristics of a bambara groundnut segregating population Euphytica. 1-12
 
5. Acga Cheng, Hui Hui Chai, Wai Kuan Ho, Aliye Siise Abdullah Bamba, Aryo Feldman, Presidor Kendabie, Razlin Azman Halim, Alberto Tanzi, Sean Mayes and Festo Massawe (2017). Molecular Marker Technology for Genetic Improvement of Underutilised Crops. In: Siti Nor Akmar Abdullah, Ho Chai-Ling And Carol Wagstaff, eds., Crop Improvement: Sustainability Through Leading-Edge Technology Springer, Cham. 47-70.
 
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