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I was born in Hong Kong to a Malaysian Chinese father and New Zealand Pākeha mother. I moved as a child to Sydney, then to Maketu in the Bay of Plenty. I grew up there, surrounded by kiwifruit, dairy farms and rapidly increasing plantings of avocado, of which included my grandparents'. I would help them with their picking and also work in kiwifruit related jobs during high-school. Then I moved to Kirikiriroa / Hamilton and studied at the University of Waikato. During my bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology (minoring in Ecology and Biodiversity), I got a job at AgResearch as a student technician. I learned about weeds in New Zealand and helped with projects about herbicide resistance. I then was kept on as a casual technician, and then did my master's degree - surveying for herbicide resistance in maize crops. Since then, I have kept working as a technician. Most of my work has been on herbicide resistance surveys, but I have also done work on other weeds.

Publications

  • A herbicide resistance risk assessment for weeds in wheat and barley crops in New Zealand
  • A herbicide resistance risk assessment for weeds in maize in New Zealand
  • Resistance to post-emergent herbicides is becoming common for grass weeds on New Zealand wheat and barley farms
  • Ryegrass resistance to glyphosate and amitrole is becoming common in New Zealand vineyards
  • Target-site and non-target site resistance mechanisms are associated with iodosulfuron resistance in Lolium perenne L.
  • The value of a herbicide resistance testing service for the agricultural sector in New Zealand
  • Evaluation of high-resolution melting and RT-qPCR probe assays for high-throughput detection of target-site mutations conferring glyphosate resistance in Lolium perenne
  • A first survey for herbicide resistant weeds across major maize growing areas in the North Island of New Zealand
  • Pyroxsulam resistance in ripgut brome ( Bromus diandrus ) in New Zealand

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