Stemerding, an expert on how the ethics of science and technology are expressed in discourse and policy, was highlighting Chinese successes in innovation to illustrate the positive aspects of a preference he perceived in China for homegrown research and development initiatives. Stemerding is co-editor of "Science and Technology Governance and Ethics: A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China" (Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015).
Chinese scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology have found a gene that plays an important role in helping rice adapt to low soil nitrogen. Using a diversified rice population derived from different ecogeographical regions, the scientists carefully evaluated how various agronomic traits responded to nitrogen in fields with different nitrogen supply conditions.
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