Li Zhensheng
Academician Li Zhensheng
Breed new hybrid types such as Xiaoyanmai octoploid, heteroadditional lines, heterogeneous substitution lines and ectopic lines; The excellent genes of drought resistance, dry and hot wind resistance, and resistance to various wheat diseases of wheatgrass were transferred to wheat, and new wheatgrass varieties No. 4, 5, and 6 were developed. By 1988, the cumulative area of ??Xiaoyanmai 6 was promoted to 54 million acres. , increasing wheat production by 3.2 billion kilograms; establishing a new wheat chromosome engineering breeding system, using the blue endosperm gene of Triticum aestivum as a genetic marker trait, creating the first blue-grain monomer wheat system, solving the long-standing "univalent chromosome drift" in the wheat utilization process " and "the workload of identification of chromosome number is too large"; bred self-fertilizing deletion wheat, and used its deletion wheat to create a new method for rapid breeding of wheat out-generation lines - deletion backcrossing method, This laid the foundation for wheat chromosome engineering breeding.
In 1991, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the academic department). In 2006, he won the highest national science and technology award.