China Vitae

Biography

Yang Hongyuan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Changsha, Hunan Province, and was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province. He graduated from Wuhan University in 1954.

Yang Hongyuan specialized in research on plant sexual reproduction experiments. He was the first to unveil paddy cell procreation without mate or pollen and cultivated ovule and parthenogenesis phenomenon of sunflower oocyte. He provided the theoretical basis for haploid plants induced by female cells and he researched the ultra structure and cell chemistry encircling gastrula structural and functional problems. Yang also researched the establishment of operational systems such as the separation of semen cells, separation and cultivation of oocytes, cultivation, amalgamation and transformation of pollen protoplasts, and dropped pollen. He is currently researching gene expression around fecundation and embryogenesis at the early stage.