Awards and Recognitions

Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Award 2016 (Science and Technology; Second Class), Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (1st Awardee) (2017) 2. Second-Class Award for Science and Technology (Zhejiang Province, China): Establishment and Large Scale Application of an Efficient and Safe System for Transgenic Rice Technology (6th…

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Patents

U.S. Patents (Granted) Plant nitrogen regulatory P-PII polypeptides (Patent No. 6,822,079) (2004) Plant nitrogen regulatory P-PII genes (Patent No, 6,177,275) (2001) Plant glutamate receptors; Patent No.: 5,824,867 (1998); 5,981,703 (1999); 5,959,174 (1999); 6,451,546 (2002) Method to alleviate abiotic stress in plants by expression of mitochondrial-targeted purple acid phosphatase (Patent No.…

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Research and Inventions of Professor Hon-Ming Lam

(A) Scientific Breakthroughs Concerns of food security and utilization of legumes 1. H.-M. Lam, J. Remais, M.-C. Fung, L. Xu, S.S.-M. Sun*. 2013. Food supply and food safety issues in China. Lancet381:2044-2053. 2. C. Foyer*, H.M. Lam, H. Nguyen, K. Siddique, R. Varshney, T. Colmer, W. Cowling, H. Bramley, T. Mori, J.…

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Press Release and Interviews

Video Highlights 2024-03-27 Can we see the world from a single soybean? Prof HM Lam from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with great enthusiasm, has develop a course for students that reveals the positive impact soybeans have on the world. (Cantonese only) 【香港飲食教育】從一粒大豆能看世界?中大林漢明教授,用狂熱撰寫學生教材,說出大豆為世界帶來正面影響的故事https://youtu.be/sZIZJXHYXHU?si=R9FPJxyRJvYyiNiJ 2023-11-11 Increasing production to benefit the…

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Selected Publications

1. H.-M. Lam*, X. Xu, X. Liu, W. Chen, G. Yang, F.-L. Wong, M.-W. Li, W. He, N. Qin, B. Wang, J. Li, M. Jian, J. Wang, G. Shao, J. Wang*, S.S.-M. Sun*, G. Zhang*. 2010. Resequencing of 31 wild and cultivated soybean genomes identifies patterns of genetic diversity and…

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