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Grain brain pleased to have a lot on his research plate
(South China Morning Post) 2006-4-1
.....Professor Sun began his research on rice when he returned to Hong Kong from the US with funding from the Research Grants Council. In 2000, he travelled to Changsha, in the hope of collaborating with the "father of hybrid rice", Professor Yuan Longping, of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the director of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Centre, who achieved worldwide fame for his technique that improved rice production by 20 per cent...The pair aim to increase the yield by 10-15 per cent over the existing super-hybrid rice by transferring a combination of four genes from corn into the rice to enhance its photosynthesis efficiency. The transgenic plant is now being grown in the CUHK greenhouse... In another effort, he undertook field trials in China last year on the production of high-nutrient rice infused with genes from winged beans, which resulted in a 40 per cent increase in the protein-rich nutrient lysine. This is part of an "area of excellence" research project funded by the University Grants Committee, and is a collaboration involving scientists from the Unicersity of Science and Technology, the University of Hong Kong and Baptist University...Professor Sun's hope is that people will be able to consume lyzine rice by 2012. The Bill Gates Foundation project will drive him towards that goal......


	2006 News Highlights 新聞摘要
	科協年會專家發言:基因食品安全 (大公報) 2006-9-21 張啟發﹕..公眾關心轉基因食品安全性及其對於生態環境安全性，這方面整個評價過程一般需要八年時間。而轉基因農作物的安全性與管理，已經推廣十一年，吃轉基因食品人數也達到二十多億之眾，至今還沒有關於轉基因食品不安全的任何證據。.....轉基因作物巨大的潛在價值，在於它能夠做到少施化肥、少打農藥、少用水、少用土地、少用勞動力，包括高產、優質、農產品多用途、食品多樣化在內的多產出，同時保護環境，減少食品污染和環境污染，維護生物多樣性.......
	基因食品並非毒藥 (文匯報) 2006-4-15 徐立之﹕...現在科學進步，但是否所有的改造都是不好的事情，我想不是。只是沒有把改造的過程向市民交代清楚，如果把食物內含有的東西告訴大眾，是大眾可以接受的。因為溝通不夠，讓市民有了誤會，如果對市民說明改了什麼基因，巿民就不用擔心。
	教育/科研組別得獎領袖辛世文專訪: 基因改造先驅解世界糧食之憂 (星島日報) 2006-4-6 星島新聞集團「2005年傑出領袖選舉」教育/科研組別的得獎者辛世文授，是全球首位成功提取及複製植物基因的科學家。近年，他與「雜交水稻之父」袁隆平合作提高超級雜交水稻品質...這個名為超雜交水稻的計畫發展至第三期，可望在2010年完成，目標是將稻米中的賴氨酸含量提高至聯合國糧農組織的5.5標準，以及將稻米畝產由800公斤提升至900公斤。計畫成功後，便能種出多產優質的稻米，紓緩內地，甚至全世界糧食不足的問題。
	Grain brain pleased to have a lot on his research plate (South China Morning Post) 2006-4-1 .....Professor Sun began his research on rice when he returned to Hong Kong from the US with funding from the Research Grants Council. In 2000, he travelled to Changsha, in the hope of collaborating with the "father of hybrid rice", Professor Yuan Longping, of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the director of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Centre, who achieved worldwide fame for his technique that improved rice production by 20 per cent...The pair aim to increase the yield by 10-15 per cent over the existing super-hybrid rice by transferring a combination of four genes from corn into the rice to enhance its photosynthesis efficiency. The transgenic plant is now being grown in the CUHK greenhouse... In another effort, he undertook field trials in China last year on the production of high-nutrient rice infused with genes from winged beans, which resulted in a 40 per cent increase in the protein-rich nutrient lysine. This is part of an "area of excellence" research project funded by the University Grants Committee, and is a collaboration involving scientists from the Unicersity of Science and Technology, the University of Hong Kong and Baptist University...Professor Sun's hope is that people will be able to consume lyzine rice by 2012. The Bill Gates Foundation project will drive him towards that goal......
	傑出領袖香港之光 (頭條日報) 2006-3-30
	以創新思維追求「未知」(星島日報) 2006-3-29 辛世文表示，進行科研非為獎，但對獲得認同感到非常鼓舞。他說稻米是全球一半人口的食糧，但由於稻米營養不足，故他專門研究提升稻米的品質和產量...做研究要有意念及創新思維，才會成功。
	星島選傑出領袖許老爺讚質素高 (頭條日報) 2006-3-29
	五人膺傑出領袖 (大公報) 2006-3-29
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