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Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006

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

Revision History:

Biography Revised: 6/11/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Yang Hongyuan
Yang Hongyuan 杨弘远
Botanist

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.

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