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Yuan Longping
Agronomist who found six male-sterile rice plants in the fields of Anjiang Agricultural School in 1964 and 1965, and in October 1973 announced that the three lines of indica hybrid rice had been matched.
Mural of the event “Hybrid Rice Breeding”, which this person took part in.
In 1964 and 1965 Yuan Longping found six male-sterile plants in the fields of Anjiang Agricultural School in Hunan, and in 1966 he published 'Male Sterility in Rice', setting out the idea of using the 'three lines' for hybrid vigour in rice. In autumn 1970 his assistant found a male-sterile wild rice plant on Hainan, named Yeba. In spring 1971 Hunan set up a hybrid-rice cooperation group, which sent material to more than 20 units in 13 provinces and cities; in spring 1972 hybrid rice was listed as a national key research project, led by the Chinese Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences and the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In 1973 researchers found restorer lines among Southeast Asian varieties and the three lines were matched. Trial planting began in Hunan in 1974, and in 1976 the national demonstration area passed 2 million mu.
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Yuan Longping was born in Beiping in 1930, graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953 and was an agronomist. In 1964 and 1965 he examined large numbers of rice ears one by one in the fields of Anjiang Agricultural School in Hunan and found six male-sterile plants; in 1966 he published The Male Sterility of Rice in issue 4 of Kexue Tongbao, setting out the idea of using hybrid vigour in rice through three lines. In the autumn of 1970 his assistant found a male-sterile wild rice plant on Hainan, and the seed bred from it was named Yeba. In the spring of 1971 Hunan formed a cooperation group for hybrid rice research, and in October 1973, at the second national meeting on hybrid rice research cooperation, he announced that the three lines of indica hybrid rice had been matched. He later worked at the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences and in his lifetime was director of the National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center and Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center. He died in Changsha on 22 May 2021.
Life and times
- 1930 CEBorn
Republican Era
Modern Era - 1970Hybrid Rice Breeding
Took partage 40In autumn 1970 a male-sterile wild rice plant, called Yeba, was found on Hainan; in October 1973 the three lines of indica hybrid rice were announced as matched, and in 1976 demonstration planting across the country passed 2 million mu. - 2021 CEDied