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Tai-Ping Sun
Dr. Sun studies a key regulatory molecule that controls plant growth and development by incorporating environmental signals. She has made contributions to the field of plant biology and agriculture, particularly to the understanding of the GA-DELLA signaling pathway and its functional significance for plant growth.

Sun's research developed seedless tomatoes by using gene editing to boost the production of auxin, a plant hormone. Her research identified four auxin signaling proteins that synergistically cause unpollenated tomato flowers to set seedless fruit that resemble fruits that result from pollenation.

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Sun is a professor of Biology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She received her doctorate in biochemistry and genetics from Duke University, and was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a reviewing editor of The Plant Cell and a contributing faculty member in FACULTY OF 1000 BIOLOGY. Sun's research focuses on elucidating the sites and regulatory mechanisms of plant hormone gibberellin (GA) biosynthesis as well as the conserved molecular events of GA perception and its signaling pathway. Her research identified DELLA proteins, which are master growth repressors whose stability is controlled by GA and its nuclear receptor. DELLAs have emerged as central regulators that integrate internal and external signals via direct protein-protein interactions with key transcription factors (TFs). Her lab recently found that these crucial DELLA-TF interactions are oppositely regulated by two novel sugar modifications, revealing a new paradigm in linking metabolic status to gene expression and cell growth.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221451412100146X

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221451412100146X next green revolution

Career
Dr. Sun earned a BS at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1980. She then studied Biochemistry at Duke University, earning her Ph.D. in 1987. She performed postdoctoral research at Oxford. Sun was appointed Assistant Professor at Trinity College of Arts & Science at Duke University in 1992 and earned Professor rank in 2006.

Awards
Dr. Sun was elected as an AAAS Fellow in 2021 to recognize her significant contributions to the Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources section. Dr. Sun received the Distinguished Research Award by the International Plant Growth Substances Association in 2010. Sun was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher, among the top 1% cited researchers in Animal/Plant biology by Thomson Reuters in 2014 and 2015 and by Clarivate Analytics in 2016.