Hybrid rice

Hybrid rice

Hybrid rice is a genealogy of rice produced by crossbreeding of different kinds of rice. Some hybrid rice may significantly increase the output.

The earliest hybrid rice was cultivated by Henry 'Hank' Beachell [cite web
last = Whalen
first = Sarah
title = The father of 'miracle rice' turns 100
work = Newspaper Article
publisher = Asia Times Online
date = 2006
url = http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HI27Ae01.html
accessdate =2008-07-22
] in 1966.

At the present time,Yuan Longping may be the most famous in research on hybrid rice. He gave birth to a hybrid rice which output 30% more than oridinary ones, which has been widely used in the rice fields. The hybrid rice by Yuan and his co-researchers has made the earth produce extra rice equivalent to food for 80 million or more people.

Recently, a new "Super Rice" in Yuan's experimental field produces rice ouptut per unit area three times as the average in the world.

To combat world food crises, the hybrid rice is one of the most important measures.

References

External links

* [http://www.agrisci.com/main.html] Hybrid rice network in Chinese
* [http://www.fao.org/rice2004/en/f-sheet/factsheet6.pdf] Hybrid rice for food security


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