Dr. Hung, Ting-Hsuan Title : Professor Highest degree : PhD. Plant Pathology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Specialties : Plant Virology, Molecular Biology E-mail : thhung@ntu.edu.tw Office : Plant Virology laboratory, The First Hall Telephone : 886-2-3366-4600　886-2-2362-5419 FAX : 886-2-2363-6490 Plant Virology Laboratory

Positions

2013-Present	Professor, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University
2005-2013	Associate Professor, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University
2001-2005	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University
1996-2001	Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University
07/00-09/00	Visiting Postdoctoral fellow, Davis Crown Gall Group,University of California, Davis, USA.
07/98-12/98	Visiting Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Honors and Awards

2004	Excellent Teaching Award, College of Bio-resources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University

Research Interests

1. Diagnosis and management for tropical diseases of fruit trees
2. Biotechnology applied in Plant pathology, citrus greening disease (Huanglongbing), Citrus virus diseases, Banana virus diseases, Papaya virus diseases, vector-pathogen relationship.

Lab Members

1. Tsai, C. H., H. J. Su, M. L. Wu, Y. C. Feng, and T. H. Hung. 2008. Identification and detection of Bougainvillea spectabilis chlorotic vein-banding virus (BsCVBV) in different bougainvillea cultivars in Taiwan. Ann. Appl. Biol. 153: 187-193.
2. Tsai, C. H., T. H. Hung, and H. J. Su. 2008. Strain identification of Citrus Huanglongbing Bacteria (HLBB) by pathogenicity characterization in Taiwan. Bot. Stud. 49: 49-56.
3. Tsai, C. H., H. J. Su, Y. C. Feng, and T. H. Hung. 2007. Study of citrus Huanglonbing and its complex infection with Citrus tristeza closterovirus and Citrus tatter leaf capilovirus in Taiwan. Plant Pathol. Bull. 16: 121-129.
4. Tsai, C. H., H. J. Su, Y. C. Liao, and T. H. Hung. 2006. First report of the causal agent of Huanglongbing (Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus) infecting kumquats in Taiwan. Plant Dis. 90: 1360.
5. Tsai, C. H., H. J. Su, Y. C. Liao, and T. H. Hung. 2005. First report of Bougainvillea spectabilis chlorotic vein-banding virus infecting bougainvillea plants in Taiwan. Plant Dis. 89: 1363.
6. Hung, T. H., S. C. Hung, C. N. Chen, M. H. Hsu, and H. J. Su. 2004. Detection by PCR of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, the bacterium causing citrus Huanglongbing in vector psyllids: application to the study of vector-pathogen relationships. Plant Pathol. 53: 96-102.
7. Chen, W. Y., T. H. Hung, and S. F. Shiao. 2004. Molecular identification of forensically important blow fly species (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from Taiwan. J. Med. Entomol. 41: 47-57.
8. Chang, L.-S., Y.-S. Lee, H.-J. Su and T.-H. Hung. 2003. First Report of Papaya leaf curl virus Infecting Papaya Plants in Taiwan. Plant Dis. 87: 204. (SCI )
9. Su, H.-J., L.-Y. Tsao, M.-L. Wu and T.-H. Hung. 2003. Biological and molecular categorization of the strains of Banana bunchy top virus. J. of Phytopathology. 151: accepted. (SCI )
10. Hung, S. C., C. N. Chen, T. H. Hung and H. J. Su. 2002. Survey of the host plants the citrus psyllid and Huanglongbing pathogen in Taiwan. Formosan Entomologist 22: 419.
11. Chen, W. Y., T. H. Hung and S. F. Shiao. 2001. Application of mitochondrial DNA CO-I sequence analysis on identifying blow fly species of forensic importance from Taipei area. Formosan Entomologist 21: 418.
12. Hung, T. H. , M. L. Wu, and H. J. Su. 2001. Identification of the Chinese box orange (Severinia buxifolia) as an alternative host of the bacterium causing citrus Huanglongbing. European J. of Plant Pathology 107: 183-189. (SCI )
13. Hung, S. C., C. N. Chen, T. H. Hung and H. J. Su. 2001. Sampling of Diaphorina citri (Homoptera: Psyllidae) on orange and orange jasmine in southern Taiwan. Formosan Entomologist 21: 425.
14. Ph.D thesis: Preparation and application of diagnostic DNA probes to ecological studies on the fastidious bacteria causing citrus greening (1994).
15. Hung, T. H. , S. C. Hung, and H. J. Su. 2001. Detection of the fastidious bacterium associated with citrus greening in vector psyllids. Plant Pathology 50: ( in revision).
16. Hung, T. H ., M. L. Wu, and H. J. Su. 2001. Verification of the Chinese box orange as an alternative host of the fastidious bacterium causing citrus greening disease. European J. of Plant Pathology 107: ( in press).
17. Hung, T. H. , M. L. Wu, and H. J. Su. 2000. A rapid method based on the one-step RT-PCR technique for detection of different strains of citrus tristeza virus. J. of Phytopathology. 148: 469-475.
18. Hung, T. H. , M. L. Wu, and H. J. Su. 2000. Identification of alternative hosts of the fastidious bacteria causing citrus greening. J. of Phytopathology. 148: 321-326.
19. Hung, T. H. , M. L. Wu, and H. J. Su. 1999. Development of a rapid method for the diagnosis of citrus greening disease using the polymerase chain reaction. J. of Phytopathology. 147: 599-604.
20. Hung, T. H. , M. L. Wu, and H. J. Su. 1999. Detection of fastidious causing citrus greening disease by nonradioactive DNA probes. Ann. Phytopathol. Soc. Jpn. 65 (2): 140-146.
21. H. J. Su, and T. H. Hung. 1998. Detection of greening fastidious bacteria (GFB) causing citrus greening by dot hybridization and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with DNA probes and primer pairs. Published by the Food & Fertilizer Technology Center for the Asian and Pacific Region.
22. Su, H. J., T. H. Hung, and M. L. Wu. 1997. First report of banana streak virus infecting banana cultivars (Musa sp.) in Taiwan. Plant disease 81 (5): 550.
23. Wu M. L., T. H. Hung , and H. J. Su. 1997. Strain differentiation of cucumber mosaic disease in Taiwan. Ann. Phytopathol. Soc. Jpn. Vol. 63. (3): 175-178.