China's agricultural genomics research leaps to the world's forefront

??? Reporters learned from the Second International Conference on Agricultural Genomics held in Shenzhen on the 17th: at present, China's level of agricultural genomics research has reached the world's forefront.

The Second International Conference on Agricultural Genomics was co-hosted by the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the journal Nature Genetics of the United Kingdom, among other institutions. More than 300 well-known scholars from home and abroad conducted academic exchanges on agricultural genomics, seed resources and breeding, and other topics.

Qian Qian, a researcher and director of the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said in an introduction that China has completed genome sequencing for about 70% to 80% of important crops such as rice, wheat, corn and cucumber, has gained a preliminary understanding of the functional traits of the genetic genes of these crops, and that its research level has moved to the international forefront.