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LEE Sing Kong
 
Current Appointment Director, NIE
Dean, External Programmes
Professor
 
Office NIE1-04-10
 
Telephone (65) 6790 3088
 
Fax (65) 6896 9414
 
Email singkong.lee@nie.edu.sg
   
Academic Background B.Sc.Hons(1st Class) 1974
PhD, National University of Singapore 1985
PGDTHE, Nanyang Technological University 1994
 
Professional Organisations International Association of Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology (National Corespondent, 1997- )
International Society of Tropical Foresters (Country Vice-President, 1997- )
Fellow of The Singapore Institute of Biology (Member, 1977- )
 
       
  Profile A horticulturist by training, S K Lee’s interests are in agrotechnology, urban forestry and plant tissue culture. He was involved in the greening of the island of Singapore since 1975. In 1991, he joined the National Institute of Singapore and embarked on the research into aeroponics. He developed the aeroponic technology and adapted it for the production of temperate vegetables in the tropics through rootzone modification. He has received several awards for this technology and these include the National Technology Award of Singapore 2000, the Urban Agriculture 2000 Award from the Urban Agriculture Network (under the auspices of FAO), the Chevalier dans l’ Ordre Palme Academique from the French Ministry of Education in 2000, and the Asian Innovation Award (Bronze) from the Far Eastern Economic Review in 1998. Dr Lee provides consultancy services in aeroponics and urban forestry to several corporations locally and internationally.
 		  
  Courses NAB 113 Introduction to Ecological Systems
 		  
  Research Interests Aeroponics in its applications for vegetable production and production of forest tree saplings, root physiology and its impact on shoot morphergenesis; restoration ecology with respect to regeneration of mangrove.
 		  
  Research Grants Development of aeroponic systems for the production of high value vegetables in Singapore
 		  
  Professional Activities
  1. Member, National Biotechnology Committee, Singapore (1997-1998)
  2. Member, Genetic Modification Advisory Committee (1998- )
  3. Chairman, Organising Committee for the Asian Pacific Conference on Plant Tissue Culture & Agribiotechnology, 2000
  4. Member of several review committees to review and restructure the school curricula, Ministry of Education (1998-1999)
  
 

Selected Publications

    
       
 

  1. Lee, S.K., Wong, Y.W., Liu, C.Y. and Cheong, S. Optimising aeroponic systems for urban farming in Singapore. Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, (1997) Special Issue: 137-143.

  2. He, J. and Lee, S.K. Growth and photosynthetic responses of three aeroponically grown letture cultivar (Latuca sativa L.) to different rootzone temperatures and growth irradiances under tropical aerial conditions. Journal of Horticultural Science UK (1998) 73: 173-180

  3. He, J. and Lee, S.K. Growth and photosynthetic characteristics of lettuce (Latuca sativa L.) grown under fluctuating hot ambient temperatures with the manipulation of cool rootzone temperature. Journal of Plant Physiology Germany (1998) 152: 387-391

  4. Christensen, J.K., Hoyer, B., Kryger, L., Pind, N. and Lee, S.K. Sulphides in the anaerobic environment: the determination of Hydrogen sulphide and acid soluble metallic sulphides in sea floor sediment. Journal of Chemical Education USA (1998) 75: 1605-1608

  5. Martin-Laurent, F., Fremont, M., Lee, S.K., Tham, F.Y., Prin, Y.,Tan, T.K. and Diem, H.G. Reforestation in South East Asia using Acacia mangium inoculated with Bradyrhizobium spp. Journal of Tropical Forest Science Malaysia (1999) 11: 470-483

  6. Ercelawn, A.E., LaFrankie, J.V., Lum, S.K.Y. and Lee, S.K. Short-term recruitment of trees in forest fragment in Singapore. Tropics, Japan (1998) 8: 105-115

  7. Martin-Laurent, F., Lee. S.K., Tham, F.Y. and He, J. Aeroponic production of Acacia mangium saplings inoculated with AM fungi for reforestation in the tropics. Forest Ecology and Management, Netherlands (1999) 122: 199-207

  8. Tan, L.P., He, J. and Lee, S.K. Physiological responses of certain ornamental plants to sludge and artificial topsoils derived from flyash, sludge and rengam series subsoil. Journal of Plant Nutrition, USA (1999) 22: 987-999

  9. Martin-Laurent, F., Tham, F.Y., Lee, S.K., He, J. and Diem, H.G. Field assessment of aeroponically grown and nodulated Acacia mangium. Australian Journal of Botany, Australia (2000) 48: 109-114

  10. Dodd, I.C., He, J., Turnbull, C.G.N., Lee, S.K. and Critchley, C. Influence of root temperature on growth and stomatal conductance of pepper (Capsicum annum L.). Journal of Experimental Botany, UK (2000) 51: 239-248

  11. Martin-Laurent, F., Tham, F.Y., and Lee, S.K. In-vitro mycorrhization of Acacia mangium Willd with Pisolithus spp. Asian Journal of Tropical Biology (In press)

  12. Dodd, Ian.C., He, J., Tan, L.P., Lee, S.K. Phytohormones and temperate vegetable production at high root zone temperature. In: Phytohormones in Crop Productivity Under Different Environments (Ed. N.A. Khan) Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, India, pp 25-41

 
     

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