Compiled from the following sources:

Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006

Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005

Revision History:

Biography Revised: 5/20/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Kuang Tingyun
Kuang Tingyun 匡廷云
Phytophysiologist

Biography

Kuang Tingyun, female, native of Zizhong County, Sichuan Province.

For a long time, Kuang devoted her time to research about photosynthetic membranes of photosynthesis. Collaborating with the scholars at home and abroad, she achieved the following results: revealed the law of the distribution of horizontal transfer regulation and excitation energy of light-arresting phyllochlorin on the membrane; proved that 21kD membrane protein was the original source of fluorescent emission of I long wave of light system; put forward possible dynamic model of light system II reaction center; took the lead finding the residue of histidine of phyllochlorin in light system II reaction center magnesium-removing chlorophyll of primary electronic receptor were damaged by illumination; and put forward the hypothesis that the second electronic transfer chain had light protective function.