Chen Jianping plant virus meets nemesis in micro world

Original title: Chen Jianping: Do plant virus "nemesis"

Chen Jianping is in the laboratory (network photo: Zhejiang Daily)

Chen Jianping, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, devoted himself to discovering the secrets of plant viruses in the microscopic world and finding ways to prevent them, according to the Voice of China News and Newspaper Abstract. Over the past 30 years, he has overcome the world problem of fungal transmission of plant viruses, clarified the occurrence law of five important virus diseases of food crops, and established comprehensive prevention and control technology, which has been widely applied in China, playing an important role in continuous disease control.

In 1990, Chen Jianping, only 27 years old, studied at Lausanne Experimental Station in England. After observing nearly ten thousand microsections of cereal polymyxa, he found barley and sex mosaic virus in the bacteria, which was the first direct evidence to reveal the transmission of plant virus by fungi, and solved the world problem that has puzzled the field of plant virus for 30 years. Chen Jianping's scientific research achievements were remarkable and he received invitations from many scientific research institutions in Britain and the United States to join. However, the unfair evaluation of China in the international community at that time deeply stimulated his nerves. After receiving his doctorate in plant virology from the University of Dundee in 1995, he decided to return home. In the following ten years, Chen Jianping led his scientific research team to continuously explore and research, rapidly improving the strength of the laboratory and catching up with the laboratories that had worked in Britain. At present, Chen Jianping and his team have taken the lead in the world in the field of fungal wheat transmission viruses. Between 2005 and 2015, more than 60% of the world's papers on fungal transmission of wheat viruses came from his team.

Chen Jianping: It is really difficult to work under the working conditions of that year, especially to do research work like mine. To do the microscopic world of plant diseases requires very advanced instruments. The conditions are very difficult, but I feel that I am making progress every day.

"Learning for application" is Chen Jianping's motto in life. In 2012, Chen Jianping participated in a poverty alleviation work in Chun'an Mountain Area. His experience of poverty alleviation made him realize that promoting agricultural income increase is not only a scientific and technological issue. Since then, he has transferred more energy from plant virus to agricultural complex research.

Chen Jianping: A lot of work in China's agriculture is fragmented. How can it be systematic and integrated requires a very good top-level design. Next, I have to do one more thing: to study the shortcomings and bottlenecks in the development process of China's agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and to study macro-agriculture. (CCTV network Beijing June 8 news reporter Li Jia)

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Chen Jianping, male, was born in Ningbo in April 1963. Graduated from Zhejiang Agricultural University in July 1985, majoring in plant protection, obtained doctor's degree in plant virology from Dandy University in December 1995, served as president of Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Zhejiang Province since April 2002, and was elected as the first batch of special experts in Zhejiang Province in 2005. He has been engaged in plant virology and virus control research for a long time, and has won more than 10 honors such as 1 of the top ten scientific and technological achievements in China in 1992, 4 first and second prizes of national scientific and technological progress, 7 first prizes of provincial scientific and technological progress, and China Young Scientist Award. (According to Zhejiang Daily)