1982年六月毕业于华中师范大学生物系。
1987作为华中农大在职研究生于武汉大学获硕士学位。
1994年于武汉大学获博士学位。

1982—1990于华中农业大学基础部工作，历任助教、讲师。
1991—1994于武汉大学留校工作，任副教授。
1994-2000分别于荷兰Wageningen大学，意大利Siena大学作博后研究，德国Hamburg大学访问学者。
2000任武汉大学发育生物学教授，博士生导师。

1. 国家重点基础研究发展计划（973）项目：“主要农作物生殖发育的分子机理及调控技术”。2013CB126900；2013-2017.
2. 国家自然科学基金为项目：“调控烟草合子细胞分裂方向的分子机制及其对顶、基细胞发育命运的影响”。31170297；2012-2015。
3. 国家重大科学研究计划课题：“合子激活及极性建立的分子调控” 2014CB943401，2014-2018。

1. Peng Zhao, Xue-mei Zhou, Li-yao Zhang, Wei Wang, Li-gang Ma, Li-bo Yang, Xiong-bo Peng, Peter V. Bozhkov, Meng-xiang Sun(*), 2013, A bipartite molecular module controls cell death activation in the basal cell lineage of plant embryos. PLoS Biology, 11(9): e1001655. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001655


2. Shisheng Li, Bing Zhou, Xiongbo Peng, Quan Kuang, Xiaolong Huang, jia-ling Yao, Bo Du, Meng-Xiang Sun(*), 2013, OsFIE2 plays an essential role in the regulation of rice vegetative and reproductive development. New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.12472
3. Xingchun Tang, Yuan Liu, Hui Tian, Yuqing He, Meng-xiang Sun (*), 2013, Exine-dehiscing induces rape microspore polarity that results in different cell fate and fixes the apical basal axis of embryogenesis, but uncouples with asymmetric cell division, Journal of Experimental Botany, 64:215-228

4. Jian-Jun Wu, Xiong-Bo Peng, Wen-Wei Li, Rui-He, Meng-Xiang Sun(*), 2012, Mitochondrial GCD1 dysfunction reveals reciprocal cell-to-cell signaling during the maturation of Arabidopsis female gametes. Developmental cell. 23, 1043–1058。

5. Jing Zhao, Haiping Xin, Lianghuan Qu, Jue Ning, Xiongbo Peng, Tingting Yan, Ligang Ma, Meng-Xiang Sun(*), (2011). The maternal-to-zygotic transition occurs before the first zygotic division and de novo transcripts are likely required after fertilization for triggering embryogenesis in tobacco. The Plant Journal, 65, 131–145

6. Ligang Ma, Haiping Xin, Lianghuan Qu, Jing Zhao, Libo Yang, Peng Zhao, Meng-xiang Sun(*). (2011). Transcription Profile Analysis Reveals That Zygotic Division Results in Uneven Distribution of Specific Transcripts in Apical/Basal Cells of Tobacco. PLoS ONE 6(1): e15971. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015971.

7. Jun-E Zhang, An Luo, Haiping Xin, Jing Zhao, Shisheng Li, Lianghuan Qu, Ligang Ma, Stefan Scholten, Meng-Xiang Sun(*), (2011). Genes of both parental origins are differentially involved in early embryogenesis of a tobacco interspecies hybrid. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23153.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023153

8. Lu Wang, Fang-lei Liao, Xiong-bo Peng, Meng-Xiang Sun(*)，2008, NtGNL1 is involved in the embryonic cell division patterning, root elongation, and pollen tube growth. New Phytologist, 179: 81–93

9. Yuchi He，Yuqing He, Meng-xiang Sun(*), Hong-Yuan Yang, (2007). Tobacco zygotic embryogenesis in vitro: The original cell wall of zygote is essential for the maintenance of cell polarity, apical-basal axis and typical suspensor formation. The Plant Journal, 49：515-527