China’s Father of hybrid rice” expects yields of 17 t/ha by 2020″

Longping YUAN, aged 86 and China’s Father of hybrid rice” working at the Wuhan Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology’s Institute of Crop Science, believes in the commercialization of polyploid rice varieties within the next 5 years, leading to yield improvements from presently 15 to 17 t/ha.”

China Bio news release, September 26, 2016

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