Struggler · Zheng Youth ｜ "Crop Han" Zhou Lei: Contribute youth for rice breeding

Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, August 15th: "Crop Han" Zhou Lei: Contributing youth for rice breeding for rice breeding

Xinhua News Agency reporter Hou Wenkun

"What about Zhou Lei?" "It's going down."

The reporter looked at the direction of Zhou Lei's fingers. A "crop Han" wearing straw hat, feet wearing rubber shoes, and dark skin was busy in the rice field. The clothes on his body had been soaked by sweat.

Zhou Lei observed the growth of rice in the field.

Although it has been established, Wuhan is still shrouded in high temperature. However, for breeding, this weather can help scientific researchers choose more high -temperature rice varieties. In order to obtain excellent breeding materials, Zhou Lei stayed in the field at a high temperature every day for seven or eight hours.

"Don't look at these two acres of test fields, but plant thousands of different rice varieties. We must go to the field to observe and record their growth process every day, and we must write 4 thick notebooks every year." Zhou Lei said. With one foot mud back to the field, he lifted the corner and wiped a sweat on his face, and then said, "The hottest season of the year is also the best time to artificial hybrid pollination of rice. ","

39 -year -old Zhou Lei is a researcher at the Food and Crops of the Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences and secretary of the rice party branch. In the past 12 years, he has taken root in the fields and devoted himself to scientific research, led the team to go through all efforts in the field of rice breeding, and has cultivated 16 new high -quality high -yield rice varieties.

Behind the seemingly simple number is a long and tedious process. Zhou Lei said: "Someone compares breeding as a needle to catch a needle and choose a good variety, which often takes several years and has to run around with farmers." For the past 10 years, for him, it is a period of chasing light and heat. "Long run".

Every year, Zhou Lei has more than 300 days "bubble" in the laboratory and field. In summer, in Hubei, in the rice fields where the sun is grilled, water steaming under his feet, and mosquito around him, he stayed for more than half a day; in winter, in order to accelerate the breeding process, he went to the South Fan base in Hainan for additional breeding. Can't go home. His straw hat and rubber shoes were kept on the corner of the desk.

The problem of low -temperature reduction in rice has troubled Chinese scientific researchers. With the support of relevant national projects, Zhou Lei, as a core member of the team, overcome difficulties, took the lead in successfully successfully successfully ctb4a in the growth period of cloned rice reproductive growth, and analyzed its molecular mechanism. In 2017, this research results were published in international authoritative journals. It is the cutting -edge scientific research results of the selection of rice -resistant breeding and solving the problem of reducing food production caused by low temperature.

Zhou Lei conducted scientific research in the laboratory.

Today, new high -quality rice varieties such as the No. 5, Guang two excellent 272, and giant 2 excellent 60s such as Zhou Lei and the team have accumulated more than 50 million acres, and the cumulative production of more than 3 billion catties has been increased.

From the tackling of poverty alleviation to the revitalization of the countryside, as the secretary of the party branch, Zhou Lei always rushed to the forefront and helped 21 former poor villages and more than 30 companies to develop high -quality high -quality rice. In Qianjiang City, Hubei, he and the team proposed the "shrimp rice co -produced" green development model to increase the rice output of shrimp rice fields per acre of shrimp and rice fields by 30%. %...

"It is my greatest wish and a lifetime pursuit to apply my scientific research results to the most need for the country." Zhou Lei said.

Zhou Lei's WeChat is called "Rice Road", and the avatar is a green rice field. He said that whenever he saw this photo, he would be full of motivation. Tighten Chinese seeds and stabilize Chinese rice bowls. Right now, Zhou Lei is leading the team to the more high -yield and higher -quality rice new varieties selection.

[Editor in charge: Zhao Wenhan]

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