Third-generation hybrid rice makes breakthrough in output (1/7)

A staff member works in a hybrid rice test field at the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center in Hengnan County, Central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 22, 2019. The center said its three plots of third-generation hybrid rice achieved average yields of 1,0344 kg, 1.0583kg, and 1.046kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares) respectively. Experts agreed that the rice has a stout stem, fertilizer tolerance, lodging resistance, large spike and more grains. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Huafeng)

Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", leads a team to visit a hybrid rice field at the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center in Hengnan County, Central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 22, 2019. The center said its three plots of third-generation hybrid rice achieved average yields of 1,0344 kg, 1.0583kg, and 1.046kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares) respectively. Experts agreed that the rice has a stout stem, fertilizer tolerance, lodging resistance, large spike and more grains. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Huafeng)

The third-generation hybrid rice developed by Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", in a test field at the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center in Hengnan County, Central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 22, 2019. The center said its three plots of third-generation hybrid rice achieved average yields of 1,0344 kg, 1.0583kg, and 1.046kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares) respectively. Experts agreed that the rice has a stout stem, fertilizer tolerance, lodging resistance, large spike and more grains. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Huafeng)

Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", leads a team to visit a hybrid rice field at the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center in Hengnan County, Central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 22, 2019. The center said its three plots of third-generation hybrid rice achieved average yields of 1,0344 kg, 1.0583kg, and 1.046kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares) respectively. Experts agreed that the rice has a stout stem, fertilizer tolerance, lodging resistance, large spike and more grains. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Huafeng)

Workers weigh the gross output of hybrid rice harvested from a field at the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center in Hengnan County, Central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 22, 2019. The center said its three plots of third-generation hybrid rice achieved average yields of 1,0344 kg, 1.0583kg, and 1.046kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares) respectively. Experts agreed that the rice has a stout stem, fertilizer tolerance, lodging resistance, large spike and more grains. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Huafeng)

Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", leads a team to visit a hybrid rice field at the China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center in Hengnan County, Central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 22, 2019. The center said its three plots of third-generation hybrid rice achieved average yields of 1,0344 kg, 1.0583kg, and 1.046kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares) respectively. Experts agreed that the rice has a stout stem, fertilizer tolerance, lodging resistance, large spike and more grains. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Huafeng)

Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", poses with review experts in Hengnan County, Central China’s Hunan Province, Oct. 22, 2019. The center said its three plots of third-generation hybrid rice achieved average yields of 1,0344 kg, 1.0583kg, and 1.046kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares) respectively. Experts agreed that the rice has a stout stem, fertilizer tolerance, lodging resistance, large spike and more grains. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Huafeng)