Research Staff

Wen-Hsi Kuo
Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Genomics
Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development

email: wkuo@mobot.org

Missouri Botanical Garden
4344 Shaw Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63110
USA

Education
Ph.D., Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2024
M.S., Biology, National Taiwan University, 2014
B.S., Biology, National Taiwan University, 2012

Evolutionary biology (local adaptation) Population genetics

Kuo, W. H., Cunningham, E., Guo, E., Olsen, K. M. 2024. Genetics and plasticity of white leaf mark variegation in white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Annals of Botany. (in press). Kuo, W. H., Zhong, L., Wright, S. J., Goad, D., Olsen, K. M. 2024. Beyond cyanogenesis: Temperature gradients drive environmental adaptation in North American white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.17484. Kuo, W. H., Wright, S. J., Small, L, Olsen, K. M. 2024. De novo genome assembly of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) reveals that copy number variation contributes to rapid climatic adaptation. BMC Biology. (in press). Kuo, W. H., Small, L, Olsen, K. M. 2023. Variable expression of cyanide detoxification and tolerance genes in cyanogenic and acyanogenic white clover (Trifolium repens L.). American Journal of Botany. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16233. Santangelo, J. S., Battlay, P., Hendrickson, B. T., Kuo, W. H., Olsen, K. M., Kooyers, N. J., Johnson, M. T. J., Hodgins, K. A., Ness, R. W. 2023. Haplotype-Resolved, Chromosome-Level Assembly of White Clover (Trifolium repens L., Fabaceae). Genome Biology and Evolution, 15(8). DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad146. Kuo, W. H., Liu, S. H., Chang, C. C., Hsieh, C. L., Li, Y. H., Ito, T, Won, H, Kokubugata, G., Chung, K. F. 2022. Plastome phylogenomics of Allaeanthus, Broussonetia and Malaisia (Dorstenieae, Moraceae) and the origin of B. × kazinoki. Journal of plant research, 135: 203–220. DOI: 10.1007/s10265-022-01369-w. Pan, Z. J., Nien, Y. C., Shih, Y. A., Chen, T. Y., Lin, W. D., Kuo, W. H., Hsu, H. C., Tu, S. L., Chen, J. C., Wang, C.N. 2022. Transcriptomic Analysis Suggests Auxin Regulation in Dorsal-Ventral Petal Asymmetry of Wild Progenitor Sinningia speciosa. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(4): 2073. DOI: 10.3390/ijms23042073. Kokubugata, G., Nakamura, K., Kuo, W.H., Qi, Z.C., Chung, K.F., Fu, C.X., Suzuki, Y., Yokota, M. 2019. Reappraisal of Tashiroea as a genus independent of Bredia (Melastomataceae) based on molecular data. Phytotaxa, 392(1): 75-83. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.392.1.8. Kuo, W. H., Hung, Y. L., Wu, H. W., Hong, C. Y., Wang, C. N. 2018. Shoot regeneration process and optimization of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in Sinningia speciosa. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 134: 301-316. DOI: 10.1007/s11240-018-1424-7. Hsu, H.J., He, C.W., Kuo W.H., Hsin K.T., Lu, J.Y., Pan, Z.J., Wang, C.N. 2018. Genetic Analysis of Floral Symmetry Transition in African Violet Suggests the Involvement of Trans-acting Factor for CYCLOIDEA Expression Shifts. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9: 1008. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01008. Chung, K. F., Kuo, W. H., Hsu, Y. H., Li, Y. H., Rubite, R. R., & Xu, W. B. 2017. Molecular recircumscription of Broussonetia (Moraceae) and the identity and taxonomic status of B. kaempferi var. australis. Botanical Studies, 58: 11. DOI: 10.1186/s40529-017-0165-y. Penailillo, J., Kuo, W. H., Olivares, G., Silva-Poblete,G., Pena-Ahumada, B., Munoz, S., Moncada X., Chung, K. F., Seelenfreund, D., Seelenfreund, A. 2017. Characterization of microsatellites for Broussonetia papyrifera (Moraceae). Applications in Plant Sciences, 5(8): 1700044. DOI: 10.3732/apps.1700044