Yuan Longping father of hybrid rice
China on Monday morning held a memorial service to bid farewell to Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice,” who passed away on Saturday. Despite being a busy workday, thousands of people dressed in black showed up and laid flowers at the site in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. The top rice scientist, who developed the first hybrid rice strain that relieved countless people of hunger, […]