Citation | Professor Jiayang Li, Vice Minister of Agriculture, The People's Republic of China, President, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Professor, Institute of Genetics and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Jiayang Li has made seminal contributions to establishing forward genetics approaches in rice and in using them to understand rice growth habit. He has identified and characterized key transcription factors and hormonal signals that determine rice architecture, and he has demonstrated that this fundamental knowledge can contribute to the development of improved rice varieties through marker assisted breeding.
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