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| The new rice variety Zhongkejing No. 5. Credit: HFIPS |
"We have been focusing on Ion Beam Bioengineering for decades. It will help to alleviate the shortage of good varieties of glutinous rice," said Dr. LIU Binmei, breeder of the rice variety.
The team applied the ion beam mutagenesis in crop breeding to promote the development of molecular breeding. With high targeting efficiency and a wide mutation spectrum, this technology has shown obvious advantages in the creation of germplasm resources.
In China, more than 100 new varieties such as rice, wheat and corn have been bred with the help of ion beams by 2020, making important contributions to the advancement of agricultural science and technology.
Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences


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