China News Service, Beijing, September 26 (Mar Shuying, Wang Shuying, Hu Chaonan) The reporter learned from the China National Atomic Energy Agency on the 26th that the China National Atomic Energy Agency organized the selection at the awards ceremony of the highest international award in the field of nuclear technology agricultural applications in Vienna recently.
It is reported that on September 20, during the 65th session of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held an award ceremony for the highest international awards in the field of agricultural applications of nuclear technology in Vienna, commending plant mutation breeding.
Among them, the "Wheat Mutation Breeding" research team of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences won the "Outstanding Achievement Award"
Academy of Sciences Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, pointed out in his award speech that “nuclear technology mutation breeding improved varieties has ensured the production of crops under climate change, and has played a role in promoting farmers’ income and sustainable development
Liu Luxiang, head of the "Wheat Mutagenesis Breeding" research team of theChinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and project coordinator of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that mutagenesis breeding mainly uses γ-rays, space environment and other physical and chemical mutagenic factors to treat crop seeds to induce them.
Academy of Sciences In the past 10 years, Liu Luxiang’s team has successfully bred 8 new wheat mutant varieties with outstanding characteristics such as high and stable yield, water saving and drought tolerance, lodging resistance, and high quality.
As the coordinator of the Asia-Pacific nuclear science and technology cooperation project, Guo Huijun, the winner of the "Outstanding Women Award", led the team to establish a diversified ground-based simulation radiation mutation breeding technology platform for wheat, and constantly improved the high-throughput detection and screening technology of wheat mutant genes.
Yang Zhen, the winner of the "Young Scientist Award", took the lead at home and abroad to conduct research on the application of radiation breeding technology with high-energy electron beams and high-energy heavy ion beams as mutagenesis sources, and led the establishment of a new type of mutagenic mutant offspring with rapid targeting of target traits The screening method significantly improves the accuracy and efficiency of screening target trait mutants
As the main participant, Yang Zhen bred new rice varieties with low cadmium absorption characteristics through gamma-ray mutation.
It is understood that mutation breeding by nuclear technology is known as another modern breeding technology after selective breeding and hybrid breeding
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