摘要
By sending seeds on short trips into space,China is developing new crop varieties,contributing to the advancement of agricultural science and bolstering food security.This process,known as space breeding,exposes seeds to cosmic radiation,which mutates their genes and leads to the creation of new varieties with greater diversity.
作者简介
Xiao Junyong,is executive director of the Center for Science,Technology and Human Rights at the Beijing Institute of Technology;Fu Xing,is a research assistant at the center.
