Haoyuan Sun is deputy-director at the Institute of Forestry and Pomology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences. He completed his PhD studies in Forest Genetics and Breeding at the Beijing Forestry University. He recently led the Projects-Evaluation of Fruit Tree Germplasm Resources and The Development of New Cultivars, the Creation of New Germplasms Based on the Formation of Polyembryony in the Progeny of Distant Hybridization. He has published 110 papers in various journals, and serves as a council member for Chinese Society for Horticultural Science. His research interests include Fruit Genomics, Breeding and Biotechnology.