Yuan Longping is a famous agricultural scientist at home and abroad, a pioneer and leader of hybrid rice industry in China, a close friend of China, an outstanding representative of personages without party affiliation, a winner of "Republic Medal", former vice chairman of Hunan Provincial Political Consultative Conference, former director of National Hybrid Rice Engineering and Technology Research Center, and an academician of China Academy of Engineering. He is known as "the father of hybrid rice".
On September 8, 20 18, he won the life science award of "Future Science Award"; 20 18 12 18 the CPC central Committee and the State Council awarded Yuan Longping the title of reform pioneer, the reform pioneer medal and the research pioneer of hybrid rice. 1October 28th, 2020, 165438+ was elected as the economic news person of China in 2020.
Yuan Longping's main achievements
/kloc-0 began to study hybrid rice in 1964, and/kloc-0 cultivated miracle rice (IR8) in Yuan Longping, IRRI Philippine International Rice Research Institute in 1966.
1986, Yuan Longping put forward the hybrid rice breeding strategy, which divided the hybrid rice breeding method into three strategic development stages: three-line method, two-line method and one-line method, that is, the breeding program developed from complex to simple and efficient.
1On July 6th, 987, Yuan Longping students Li Bihu and Deng Huafeng discovered a photosensitive sterile rice in the three-line indica rice breeding materials of Anjiang Agricultural School.
From 65438 to 0987, the national "863" plan took the research of two-line hybrid rice as a special topic, and Yuan Longping formed a two-line hybrid rice research cooperation group to carry out Chinese-style collaborative research.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuan Longping.