Yuan Longping， the world-renowned “Father of Hybrid Rice，” is an outsfanding agronomisf fromChina and winner of mulfiple awards including theNational Science and Technology Award， the WIPO GoldMedal for Invenfors， the UNESCO Science Prize， andthe World Food Prize. He has been devoted to hybridrice research since his early 20s and has established afechnological roadmap for super hybrid rice breeding.His accomplishmenfs have contributed to China's foodself-sufficiency and the world's food security.
目录
Chapter One YouthfuI Aspirations
Hard Times
The Two Sides of Hankou
YouthfuI Aspirations
The Choice of Destiny
Chapter Two Yuan Longping's Dream
Lost in the Maze
Yuan Longping's Dream
Goldbach's Conjecture in the Rice Kingdom
Inspiration from Nietzsche
Chapter Three The Man Chasing the Sun
In Search of the Natural Male Sterile Plant
“Food Is More Important Than Satellites．”
Saved from Disaster
Chasing the Sun
Chapter Four The Fifth Great Invention
The Breakthrough
Turning Addition to Multiplication
“Boasting Gets You Nowhere!”
The Last Step
Chapter Five The Second Green Revolution
A Seed That Changed the World
The Second Green Revolution
The “Two Line” Method： Another Chinese Invention
Who Will Feed China?
Challenging the Upper Limit
