Xing Yuyi team of Academia Sinica has conducted cross-border research, revealing Taiwan's history and hoping that "Taiwan orphans" will eradicate global hunger.

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(previous article) specializing in rice genomic research, he solved the mystery of Penglaimi's life experience, and Xing Yuyi, a specially hired researcher at the Institute of Plant Microbiology of Academia Sinica, who found the migration path of ethnic groups in the South Island language family, has focused his research on upland rice in mountainous areas in recent years. as a result, Taiwan oil has been discovered, which is a "supercrop" praised by the international academic community. "upstream and downstream" an exclusive interview with this scholar who has won the Taiwan Law Science and Technology Award and rigorous scholarship. Talk about the past life, present life and future of Taiwan's Youmang.

The oil awn has a high yield, and there is no need for extra fertilizer to fight drought.

When the effects of climate and environmental change have spread everywhere, Xing Yuyi started with corn: "A few years ago, it was discovered that corn could be used as an energy crop, so that people could eat less. As a result, there is a food shortage in many countries, such as Mexico, which is closer to the corn producing areas of the United States. Do not dare to use corn mainly on bioenergy, but feed people first, and the issue related to food security is the key issue to be considered first. "

Xing Yuyi then held out his hands and said, "the most important crops in the world can be calculated with five fingers-rice, wheat, corn and high-yielding cassava, not even sorghum, but these crops need to spend a lot of water. Use herbicides, disease resistance and drug resistance, and be sure to irrigate and fertilize so that the yield will be sufficient."

After the discovery of the oil awn, in order to confirm the various characteristics of the oil awn, Xu Zifu, a research assistant of Xing Yuyi's team, invited the traditional planting methods of the indigenous people, and did not irrigate them the rest of the time except for watering them during budding. On the other hand, the small seedlings planted in the soil do not apply fertilizer, pesticides or herbicides, "but Youmanang is not as competitive as weeds when they are young, and they need to pull up weeds and sparse seedlings when they are young."

After listening to Xing Yuyi describe that the planting conditions of Youmang seem a bit like red quinoa, she thought about it and said, "this is true for many indigenous crops, because there is not so much water resources, and what they can cultivate for a long time, except upland rice, they don't need much water."