Yuan Longping is an expert in hybrid rice breeding in China and a pioneer in hybrid rice research and development in China. He is known as "the father of hybrid rice in the world"? .
Academician Yuan Longping is a world-famous hybrid rice expert, a pioneer and leader in the field of hybrid rice research in China, and has made outstanding contributions to the development of grain production and agricultural science in China. His main achievement is in the research, application and popularization of hybrid rice.
Main contributions:
1, Yuan Longping took the lead in the research on the utilization of rice heterosis in China. In his first paper, Rice Male Sterility, he proposed: "If you want to take advantage of rice heterosis, you must first take advantage of male sterility".
His theory and research practice are a challenge to the classical genetic theory, denying the traditional view that "self-pollinated crops have no heterosis" and greatly enriching the theory and technology of crop genetics and breeding.
2. Yuan Longping put forward the development strategy of hybrid rice breeding, that is, the method changed from three lines to two lines and then to one line, and the procedure became simpler and more efficient.
At the level of heterosis, from varieties to subspecies to the utilization of distant heterosis, heterosis is getting stronger and stronger, which pushes hybrid rice to a new level step by step. This idea has been adopted by colleagues at home and abroad and has become the guiding ideology for developing hybrid rice breeding.