Hot topics of agricultural science in 2018

WANG Yanjie; CHANG Xuhong; WANG Demei; TAO Zhiqiang; YANG Yushuang; ZHAO Guangcai

doi:10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2019.01.007

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Science & Technology Review ›› 2019, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1) : 65-86. DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2019.01.007

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Hot topics of agricultural science in 2018

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Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences;Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology of Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China

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In 2018, Chinese agriculture science obtained further development. The main food crops including wheat, rice, corn, soybean, buckwheat and potato had rapid development in aspects of genome sequencing, molecular breeding, genetic mechanism analysis, efficient nitrogen utilization, origin and evolution, gene editing. Specially, China issued the world's first genome map of hexaploid wheat, completed genome sequencing of 3000 rice accessions and soybean accession of Zhonghuang 13, cloned a series genes of production, quality and diseases and insects resistance, and analyzed some growth and development regulatory mechanisms. Some important commercial crops such as rape, cotton, tea, and tobacco had breakthroughs in genomics, flavor regulation mechanism, photosynthetic efficiency, etc. China's basic and application research of rape attained the international leading level. Moreover, a large number of breakthrough achievements were made in, for instance, the control of plant diseases and insect pests of rice, wheat, tomato, apple etc., breeding, varieties improvement and disease control and prevention of livestock and poultry, genome and transcriptome of bees, disease control and domestication of silkworm, impact of fertilizer and rice varieties on climate change, the impact of climate change on crop yield, stems leafy vegetables and edible bean harvesting equipment mechanization as well as rapeseeds sower technology, and other fields.

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agricultural science / food crops / commercial crops / disease and pest control / climate change

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WANG Yanjie, CHANG Xuhong, WANG Demei, TAO Zhiqiang, YANG Yushuang, ZHAO Guangcai. Hot topics of agricultural science in 2018[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2019, 37(1): 65-86 https://doi.org/10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2019.01.007

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