Yuan Longping, the renowned and respected Chinese scientist often taken
for a farmer, has found the world a way out of famine. Unde-terred by
the prevailing ignorance of heterosis in rice and other self-pollinating
plants, he has dedicated himself to research into hybrid rice since the
1960s, and his feats have won him the accolade "father of hybrid rice"
and earned him the honor of being made foreign associate of the US
National Academy of Sciences Why is Yuan so obsessed by hybrid rice
research? How did he manage with such simple conditions, scarce
aterials, backward technol-ogy and insufficient information? What global
impacts will Yuan and his team have? This book may give the answers.
Table of Contents
Chapter One Hunger —— A Specter Haunting the World
Chapter Two Deep in the Xuefeng Mountains —— An Agricultural School Teacher Takes on a World-challenging Subject
Chapter Three Determined Pursuit
Chapter Four Green Legend: From Hybrid Rice to Super Hybrid Rice
Chapter Five Golden Rice Seeds —— A Boon to the World
The Man Who Puts An End to Hunger: Yuan Longping, Father of Hybrid Rice
