The “Father of Hybrid Rice”, Yuan Longping, created high-yield hybrid rice that can feed tens
of millions of people annually. The research achievements of Yuan and his team on low …

Rice by soliciting contributions in 2016, which he provided to the editorial department of
Chinese Science Bulletin. The collection includes 17 articles that describe Professor …

China is the largest producer and consumer of rice in the world and a pioneer in applying
hybrid rice technology. Although hybrid rice has contributed greatly to Chinese agriculture in …

There is no doubt that rice is the most important staple food on Chinese dining-table. Among
all forces driving rice yield, breeding of new elite varieties is always regarded as the major …

More than 100 Nobel laureates recently signed a letter urging Greenpeace to end its
opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). With an ever-increasing demand for …

Future world food security requires continued and sustainable increase in rice production.
Much of this increase has to come from new high yielding cultivars with resistances to …

Rice Research: Past, Present and Future Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a major crop in the world
and provides the staple food for over half of the world 抯 population. From thousands of …

International genebanks have a collection of over 760 K conserved accessions of various
plants, most of these accessions are within the multi-lateral system governed by the …

Rice breeding in China has experienced three major leaps of dwarf breeding, heterosis
utilization and green super rice cultivation, accompanied by six important processes: dwarf …

© Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 2014 was a banner
year for Yuan Longping,''the father of hybrid rice'', and his team. The yield of ''super rice''hit a …