Hybrid rice
Arroz híbrido
- Date
- 1973 · confidence high
- Place
- Hunan, China (Yuan Longping)
- Credited to
- Yuan Longping and his team; commercial cultivation from 1976
- People
- 👤 Yuan Longping1929–2021
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Crossing of male-sterile rice lines producing hybrids with 20 per cent higher yields. It feeds a substantial part of China's and Asia's population.
What it led to
- China's food security after the Great Famine
- The export of Chinese agricultural technology to Asia and Africa
- Hybrid breeding of other crops
Built on
- Irrigated paddy fieldc. 4200 BCE
- Green Revolution: semi-dwarf wheat and IR8 rice1960-1966
- hybrid maize
- cytoplasmic male sterility
Made possible
- super-hybrid rice
- salt-tolerant rice