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Biography

Sun Daye, male, Han nationality, is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Agronomy Department of Beijing Agricultural University in 1959. Sun is an academician and cytobiologist.

Sun has a long and varied academic research career. Along with his professorial duties at Hebei Normal University, he studied plant calcium regulator and apoplast polypeptide messengers in the field of cellular signal transducing. His studies led to his detecting calcium regulators among the apoplasts of more than one dozen types of plants; this confirmed the universality of calcium regular existing outside cells.

He is a leading researcher with respect to pollen, finding that isotripolymer G albumen exists and that the mechanism that the albumen, together with Ca2+ signal channel, participates in apoplast calcium regulator trans-membrane and intracellular signal transducing.

In 2001, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.