Dec.29,2021
Recently, MaZhiying, a professorofHEBAU,won the 7th “ChinaAgriculturalTalentAward” in recognition of his outstanding contributions to cotton genetic improvement and grain&cotton production development. It is reported that a total of 11 agricultural science and technologyexpertsacross the country won the award.
“ChinaAgriculturalTalentAward”isa triennially awardestablished and organized by the Ministry ofAgriculture andRuralAreas for national agricultural science and technology workerswho have made significant contributionsinpromoting agricultural scientific and technological progress, the implementation of Rural Revitalization Strategy and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization.
Prof.MaZhiyinghas long been committed to agricultural science and technology innovation research and production services,and heled the team to overcome the problemof simultaneous improvement of disease resistance and high yield, and bred a series of new cotton varietiesstrong indisease resistance and highinyield. His researchprovides core technology for solving the major production problems ofCottonVerticilliumWiltand breaksthrough the technical bottleneck of synergistic improvement of high quality, high yield and multi resistance.Aseries of new cotton varieties with "high quality and high yield" have been bred, which providestrong support for improving the quality and efficiency of cotton production. Targeting at the problem of the mismatching between insufficiency in light, heat & water resources and agricultural machinery & agronomy, he developed a systematic water-saving, high-yield and high-efficiency technology for wheat and corn in different ecological areas ofHaihe Plain, which provided a practical technology for solving the problem of“water-consuming & low-yield”in grain production.His research decoded the genomic structure variation and genetic effect of cotton breeding and improvement, and foundimportant genetic loci and new genes controlling different traits, which provideda new theoretical basis and gene resources for crop multi-trait collaborative improvement.The results were published in Nature Genetics in 2021. Ma Zhiying has presided over and completed more than 20 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects and achieved a number of innovative achievements, bred 22 approved cotton varieties, obtained 24 national invention patentsandpublished 178 papers in famous journalsdomesticallyand abroad.The production ofnew varieties and technologies have been appliedin more than10,67 million acresoffields, andhave achievedremarkable social and economic benefits. As the first completer, he haswon 3 second prizes of“National Science and Technology Progress Award”and 5 first prize of science and technology at provincial or ministerial level. In addition, he won“2020 Hebei ProvincialScience and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award”, the science and technology innovation award of“He Liang He Li Foundation”, and“the Excellent Innovation Team Award of Chinese Agricultural Science and Technology”.
