April 2014
Rabiatul Adawiah Binti Zainal Abidin > Other Awards
Excellent Award Service was given by MARDI to it employee.
October 2024
Rabiatul Adawiah Binti Zainal Abidin > Other Awards
Bronze for Knowledge Category: AMYLOSNP: Candidate Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in Starch Biosynthetic Genes Associated with Amylose Content in Malaysian Rice Accessions
January 2018
Rabiatul Adawiah Binti Zainal Abidin > Other Awards
Best oral presenter in conference.
August 2025
Rabiatul Adawiah Binti Zainal Abidin > Other Awards
Anugerah Bitara Alumni (Outstanding Alumni Award) from the Institute of Systems Biology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Bangi
October 2021
Rabiatul Adawiah Binti Zainal Abidin > Other Awards
Won Silver under Knowledge category in The MARDI Science & Technology Exhibition (MSTE)
Project title: MyNutRiceBase and CpEDb: An integrated omics resource for new knowledge discovery in local rice and papaya varieties
October 2015
Rabiatul Adawiah Binti Zainal Abidin > Other Awards
Won Bronze under Innovation category in The MARDI Science & Technology Exhibition (MSTE)
Project title: MARKERMART@CMDV, a repository of genomics and genetics information from crops, livestock and aquaculture
Full Member
DR. Rabiatul Adawiah Zainal Abidin
Membership since:
2026
Field of activity:
Awards
Degrees:
2006
Undergraduate
Biological Systems and Organisms
Publications resulting from Research
Razalli, I.I., Abdullah-Zawawi, MR., Zainal Abidin, R.A. et al. Identification and validation of hub genes associated with biotic and abiotic stresses by modular gene co-expression analysis in Oryza sativa L.. Sci Rep 15, 8465 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92942-5
Harun, S., Zainal-Abidin, R-A. (2024). Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. In: Al-Khayri, J., Alnaddaf, L.M., Jain, S.M., Penna, S. (eds) Innovative Methods in Horticultural Crop Improvement. Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61081-3_9
Zainal-Abidin, R-A., Khalid, K. (2024). Nanotechnologies and Omics: A Way Forward. In: Al-Khayri, J., Alnaddaf, L.M., Jain, S.M., Penna, S. (eds) Innovative Methods in Horticultural Crop Improvement. Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61081-3_1
Zainal-Abidin R-A, A.B. Norliza, Y.S. Sew, A.R. Shahril Firdaus and S. Sanimah. 2023. Comparative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) analysis of MR 297 and MRQ 76 rice varieties reveals potential SNPs in coding genes. 2023. Journal of Tropical Agriculture and Food Science (JTAFS). 1-20.
Zainal-Abidin R-A, Nor Afiqah-Aleng, Yun Shin Sew, Norliza Abu Bakar and Sanimah Simoh. Mining of Stress-related Genes in Pigmented and Non-pigmented Rice using Gene Co-expression Network and Clustering Approaches. 2023. Malaysian Journal of Applied Sciences. Vol. 19 (2023) 6-18.
Rabiatul Adawiah Zainal Abidin. 2023. Pengenalan. Dlm. CMDV (ed.). Merungkai Sistem Penanda Molekul, hlm. 1-4. Serdang: Penerbit MARDI.
N Govaichelvan Kumanan, Pathmanathan Dharini, Zainal-Abidin R-A, & Abu Arpah. (2023). Machine learning for major food crops breeding: Applications, challenges, and ways forward. Agronomy Journal. 10.1002/agj2.21393.
Suhaimi Ainu, Zainal-Abidin R-A, Yusof Fairuz, Roslan Abdullah, Sipat Abdullah & Yusoff Khatijah. (2023). In silico analysis of xylanase in Bacillus coagulans ST-6. Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. 17-27. 10.35118/apjmbb.2023.031.3.03.
Sew YS, Aizat WM, Zainal-Abidin R-A, Ab Razak MSF, Simoh S, Abu-Bakar N. Proteomic Variability and Nutrient-Related Proteins across Pigmented and Non-Pigmented Rice Grains. Crops. 2023; 3(1):63-77. https://doi.org/10.3390/crops3010007
Muhammad Fairuz Mohd Yusof & Rabiatul Adawiah Zainal Abidin. 2023. Pengenalpastian Penanda Molekul Melalui Kaedah Bioinformatik. Dlm. CMDV (ed.). Merungkai Sistem Penanda Molekul, hlm. 39-49. Serdang: Penerbit MARDI.
Zainal-Abidin R-A, Harun S, Vengatharajuloo V, Tamizi A-A, Samsulrizal NH. Gene Co-Expression Network Tools and Databases for Crop Improvement. Plants. 2022; 11(13):1625. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11131625.
Zainal-Abidin R-A, Afiqah-Aleng N, Abdullah-Zawawi M-R, Harun S, Mohamed-Hussein Z-A. Protein–Protein Interaction (PPI) Network of Zebrafish Oestrogen Receptors: A Bioinformatics Workflow. Life. 2022; 12(5):650. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12050650.
Ullah MA, Abdullah-Zawawi M-R, Zainal-Abidin R-A, Sukiran NL, Uddin MI, Zainal Z. A Review of Integrative Omic Approaches for Understanding Rice Salt Response Mechanisms. Plants. 2022; 11(11):1430. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11111430.
Md Saad, M.; Zainal-Abidin, R. A.; Hassan, M. A.; Abu Bakar, N. New Insights into Host-Pathogen Interactions in Papaya Dieback Disease Caused by Erwinia Mallotivora in Carica papaya. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-022-02484-z.
Zainal-Abidin R-A, Ruhaizat-Ooi I-H, Harun S. (2021). A Review of Omics Technologies and Bioinformatics to Accelerate Improvement of Papaya Traits. Agronomy, 11(7), 1356. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11071356.
Zainal-Abidin Rabiatul-Adawiah & Mohamed-Hussein Zeti-Azura. 2020. Computational analysis of rice transcriptomic and genomic datasets in search for SNPs involved in flavonoid biosynthesis. IntechOpen. In Recent Advances in Rice Research. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94876.
Ismail, S. N., Ghani, N., Ab Razak, S. F., Abidin, R., Mohd Yusof, M. F., Zubir, M. N., & Zainol, R. (2020). Genetic Diversity of Pineapple (Ananas comosus) Germplasm in Malaysia Using Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers. Tropical life sciences research, 31(3), 15–27. https://doi.org/10.21315/tlsr2020.31.3.2.
Sew, Y. S., Aizat, W. M., Razak, M., Zainal-Abidin, R. A., Simoh, S., & Abu-Bakar, N. (2020). Comprehensive proteomics data on whole rice grain of selected pigmented and non-pigmented rice varieties using SWATH-MS approach. Data in brief, 31, 105927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105927.
Zainal-Abidin, R. A., Zainal, Z., Mohamed-Hussein, Z. A., Sew, Y. S., Simoh, S., Ab Razak, S., & Abu-Bakar, N. (2020). Data on genome resequencing of pigmented and non-pigmented Malaysian rice varieties. Data in brief, 31, 105806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105806.
Zainal-Abidin, R. A., Zainal, Z., Mohamed-Hussein, Z. A., Abu-Bakar, N., Ab Razak, M., Simoh, S., & Sew, Y. S. (2020). RNA-seq data from whole rice grains of pigmented and non-pigmented Malaysian rice varieties. Data in brief, 30, 105432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105432.
Zainal-Abidin, R. A., Abu-Bakar, N., Sew, Y. S., Simoh, S., & Mohamed-Hussein, Z. A. (2019). Discovery of Functional SNPs via Genome-Wide Exploration of Malaysian Pigmented Rice Varieties. International journal of genomics, 2019, 4168045. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4168045.
Zainal-Abidin, R.-A. and Abu-Bakar, N. and Shin, S.Y. and Simoh, S. (2018). Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) related databases for the advancement of rice breeding. Malaysian Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology., 21(3), 37-44.
Othman, T., Bakar, N.T., Abidin, R.Z., Mahmood, M., Binti, N.B., Saidi, & Shaharuddin, N.A. (2018). Transcriptomic Profiling of Malaysia Rice Cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) Under Effect of Osmotic Stress Induced by PEG 6000. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology, 21(2):375-384.
Mohamad-Fauzi, N., Zainal-Abidin, R., Zaidan, M., Simoh, S., Zainal, A., & Mohamed-Hussein, Z. (2018). Reconstruction of Curcuma aeruginosa secondary metabolite biosynthetic pathway using Omics data. Sains Malaysiana, 47, 2985-2992.
Abidin, R.Z., Seman, Z.A., Razak, S.A., Abdullah, N., & Bakar, U.A. (2015). Discovery of potential SSR markers through genome wide analysis of maize B73 genome. Jurnal Teknologi, 77 (24), 153-158.
Hussein, Z. A., Loke, K. K., Abidin, R. A., & Othman, R. (2011). EuDBase: An online resource for automated EST analysis pipeline (ESTFrontier) and database for red seaweed Eucheuma denticulatum. Bioinformation, 7(4), 157–162. https://doi.org/10.6026/97320630007157.
Harun, S., Zainal-Abidin, R-A. (2024). Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. In: Al-Khayri, J., Alnaddaf, L.M., Jain, S.M., Penna, S. (eds) Innovative Methods in Horticultural Crop Improvement. Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61081-3_9
Zainal-Abidin, R-A., Khalid, K. (2024). Nanotechnologies and Omics: A Way Forward. In: Al-Khayri, J., Alnaddaf, L.M., Jain, S.M., Penna, S. (eds) Innovative Methods in Horticultural Crop Improvement. Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61081-3_1
Zainal-Abidin R-A, A.B. Norliza, Y.S. Sew, A.R. Shahril Firdaus and S. Sanimah. 2023. Comparative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) analysis of MR 297 and MRQ 76 rice varieties reveals potential SNPs in coding genes. 2023. Journal of Tropical Agriculture and Food Science (JTAFS). 1-20.
Zainal-Abidin R-A, Nor Afiqah-Aleng, Yun Shin Sew, Norliza Abu Bakar and Sanimah Simoh. Mining of Stress-related Genes in Pigmented and Non-pigmented Rice using Gene Co-expression Network and Clustering Approaches. 2023. Malaysian Journal of Applied Sciences. Vol. 19 (2023) 6-18.
Rabiatul Adawiah Zainal Abidin. 2023. Pengenalan. Dlm. CMDV (ed.). Merungkai Sistem Penanda Molekul, hlm. 1-4. Serdang: Penerbit MARDI.
N Govaichelvan Kumanan, Pathmanathan Dharini, Zainal-Abidin R-A, & Abu Arpah. (2023). Machine learning for major food crops breeding: Applications, challenges, and ways forward. Agronomy Journal. 10.1002/agj2.21393.
Suhaimi Ainu, Zainal-Abidin R-A, Yusof Fairuz, Roslan Abdullah, Sipat Abdullah & Yusoff Khatijah. (2023). In silico analysis of xylanase in Bacillus coagulans ST-6. Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. 17-27. 10.35118/apjmbb.2023.031.3.03.
Sew YS, Aizat WM, Zainal-Abidin R-A, Ab Razak MSF, Simoh S, Abu-Bakar N. Proteomic Variability and Nutrient-Related Proteins across Pigmented and Non-Pigmented Rice Grains. Crops. 2023; 3(1):63-77. https://doi.org/10.3390/crops3010007
Muhammad Fairuz Mohd Yusof & Rabiatul Adawiah Zainal Abidin. 2023. Pengenalpastian Penanda Molekul Melalui Kaedah Bioinformatik. Dlm. CMDV (ed.). Merungkai Sistem Penanda Molekul, hlm. 39-49. Serdang: Penerbit MARDI.
Zainal-Abidin R-A, Harun S, Vengatharajuloo V, Tamizi A-A, Samsulrizal NH. Gene Co-Expression Network Tools and Databases for Crop Improvement. Plants. 2022; 11(13):1625. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11131625.
Zainal-Abidin R-A, Afiqah-Aleng N, Abdullah-Zawawi M-R, Harun S, Mohamed-Hussein Z-A. Protein–Protein Interaction (PPI) Network of Zebrafish Oestrogen Receptors: A Bioinformatics Workflow. Life. 2022; 12(5):650. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12050650.
Ullah MA, Abdullah-Zawawi M-R, Zainal-Abidin R-A, Sukiran NL, Uddin MI, Zainal Z. A Review of Integrative Omic Approaches for Understanding Rice Salt Response Mechanisms. Plants. 2022; 11(11):1430. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11111430.
Md Saad, M.; Zainal-Abidin, R. A.; Hassan, M. A.; Abu Bakar, N. New Insights into Host-Pathogen Interactions in Papaya Dieback Disease Caused by Erwinia Mallotivora in Carica papaya. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-022-02484-z.
Zainal-Abidin R-A, Ruhaizat-Ooi I-H, Harun S. (2021). A Review of Omics Technologies and Bioinformatics to Accelerate Improvement of Papaya Traits. Agronomy, 11(7), 1356. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11071356.
Zainal-Abidin Rabiatul-Adawiah & Mohamed-Hussein Zeti-Azura. 2020. Computational analysis of rice transcriptomic and genomic datasets in search for SNPs involved in flavonoid biosynthesis. IntechOpen. In Recent Advances in Rice Research. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94876.
Ismail, S. N., Ghani, N., Ab Razak, S. F., Abidin, R., Mohd Yusof, M. F., Zubir, M. N., & Zainol, R. (2020). Genetic Diversity of Pineapple (Ananas comosus) Germplasm in Malaysia Using Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers. Tropical life sciences research, 31(3), 15–27. https://doi.org/10.21315/tlsr2020.31.3.2.
Sew, Y. S., Aizat, W. M., Razak, M., Zainal-Abidin, R. A., Simoh, S., & Abu-Bakar, N. (2020). Comprehensive proteomics data on whole rice grain of selected pigmented and non-pigmented rice varieties using SWATH-MS approach. Data in brief, 31, 105927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105927.
Zainal-Abidin, R. A., Zainal, Z., Mohamed-Hussein, Z. A., Sew, Y. S., Simoh, S., Ab Razak, S., & Abu-Bakar, N. (2020). Data on genome resequencing of pigmented and non-pigmented Malaysian rice varieties. Data in brief, 31, 105806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105806.
Zainal-Abidin, R. A., Zainal, Z., Mohamed-Hussein, Z. A., Abu-Bakar, N., Ab Razak, M., Simoh, S., & Sew, Y. S. (2020). RNA-seq data from whole rice grains of pigmented and non-pigmented Malaysian rice varieties. Data in brief, 30, 105432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105432.
Zainal-Abidin, R. A., Abu-Bakar, N., Sew, Y. S., Simoh, S., & Mohamed-Hussein, Z. A. (2019). Discovery of Functional SNPs via Genome-Wide Exploration of Malaysian Pigmented Rice Varieties. International journal of genomics, 2019, 4168045. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4168045.
Zainal-Abidin, R.-A. and Abu-Bakar, N. and Shin, S.Y. and Simoh, S. (2018). Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) related databases for the advancement of rice breeding. Malaysian Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology., 21(3), 37-44.
Othman, T., Bakar, N.T., Abidin, R.Z., Mahmood, M., Binti, N.B., Saidi, & Shaharuddin, N.A. (2018). Transcriptomic Profiling of Malaysia Rice Cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) Under Effect of Osmotic Stress Induced by PEG 6000. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology, 21(2):375-384.
Mohamad-Fauzi, N., Zainal-Abidin, R., Zaidan, M., Simoh, S., Zainal, A., & Mohamed-Hussein, Z. (2018). Reconstruction of Curcuma aeruginosa secondary metabolite biosynthetic pathway using Omics data. Sains Malaysiana, 47, 2985-2992.
Abidin, R.Z., Seman, Z.A., Razak, S.A., Abdullah, N., & Bakar, U.A. (2015). Discovery of potential SSR markers through genome wide analysis of maize B73 genome. Jurnal Teknologi, 77 (24), 153-158.
Hussein, Z. A., Loke, K. K., Abidin, R. A., & Othman, R. (2011). EuDBase: An online resource for automated EST analysis pipeline (ESTFrontier) and database for red seaweed Eucheuma denticulatum. Bioinformation, 7(4), 157–162. https://doi.org/10.6026/97320630007157.
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