Events

• NAIST Global COE International Student Workshop Held in Japan

  16 Nov 2008

• Newly Identified Rice Gene May Help Reduce Nitrogen Fertilizer Use

  Chinese scientists have found a gene that plays a crucial role in helping rice adapt to low soil nitrogen and may be used to breed high-yield rice varieties with reduced nitrogen fertilizer use.

  11 Jan 2021

• Chinese Researchers Construct High-quality Soybean Genome

  Chinese researchers have constructed a high-quality genome map of diverse soybean varieties, which could help improve soybean breeding and cultivation.

  19 Jun 2020

• Chinese, British research institutes bolster cooperation in life sciences

  Scientists from China and Britain agree to continue and strengthen research cooperation in the fields of food security and natural medicinal products.

  12 May 2020

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  To Feed Its 1.4 Billion, China Bets Big on Genome Editing of Crops

  China may one day need CRISPR-modified plants to provide enough food for its massive population, before which China needs to resolve how to regulate CRISPR-engineered crops.

  30 Jul 2019

• ‘Green revolution’ crops bred to slash fertilizer use

  19 Aug 2018

• CAS Integrative Physiology Scientist Elected to the Royal Society

  Professor John Speakman, from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s National Academy, it was announced today (Wednesday May 9th 2018)

  09 May 2018

• CAS Scientist Made Fellow of the AAAS

  Professor John Speakman from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  25 Nov 2016