Towards Next-generation Rice-Following the Footprints of Late Academician YUAN Longping

Editor's note:"Father of Hybrid Rice",late academician YUAN Longping,left us in May.His dedication and passion to breed China's super hybridrice has been passed down to the next-generation researchers.To seeinto the future of next-generation rice,YAN Fusheng,BCAS staff reporter,has the honor to invite a group of leading scientists in the field to sharewith us their own studies and how these studies will implicate and inspire thenext-generation rice.