Chinese agricultural scientists have made a huge strive for excellence in the last two decades, starting from a modest base regarding availability of equipment and technical expertise to opening to the world, initially to learn and then to teach. The latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, https://www.shanghairanking.com/) in agricultural science has Chinese universities listed as the top 2 (Northwest A&F University and China Agricultural University), with 7 Chinese universities in the top 10, and 31 in the top 100. This excellent science has translated into improved food production, with P.R. China achieving self-sufficiency in food production in 2005. Since then, the emphasis has shifted from simply maximising the food production to producing excellent-quality food with high resource-use efficiency and minimal environmental disturbance. The knowledge transfer from universities to farmers in PR China has certainly been enormously challenging given a highly fragmented nature of agricultural holdings, but the substantial achievements have already been recorded. I, personally, am in awe of Chinese agricultural scientists and their achievements, having visited PR China for the first time in 1996 and then witnessing, in my numerous subsequent visits, the progress they have made.
Crop & Pasture Science is proud to be a sought-after publishing outlet for Chinese agricultural scientists. This Virtual issue featuring a small selection of papers from China will hopefully contribute to raising further the profile of agricultural science in China and around the world.
Zed Rengel
University of Western Australia, UWA School of Agriculture and Environment
Email: zed.rengel@uwa.edu.au
, Yongxi Liu , Qiaoqiao Yu , Yue Ma , Wanrong Gu and Deguang Yang
and Yingpeng Han
, Jinxia Feng , Martin Weih , Yi Meng , Yifan Li , Silong Zhai and Wuyi Zhang
and Yingpeng Han
and Derong Gao
, Muhammad Maqsood , Shahid Ibni Zamir , Muhammad Ishfaq , Nauman Ali , Muhammad Ahmad and Muhammad Faisal Maqsood
, Yuya Lu , Shuying Bao , Qiang Zhang , Yanqiu Geng and Xiwen Shao
, Waqas Ahmed , Muhammad Imtiaz , Muhammad Qaswar , Muhammad Ikram , Saqib Bashir , Muhammad Rizwan , Sana Irshad , Shuxin Tu , Weidong Li and Di-Yun Chen
and Nithya Rajan
, Muhammad Adeel , Manlin Guo , Ling Ge , Noman Shakoor , Mingshu Li , Yuanbo Li , Guiyun Wang and Yukui Rui
, QianHua Wu , YanMing Zhu , ZhiLian Fan , Christopher Rensing , Hong Liu and RenWei Feng
, Hongmei Cui , Pengliang Xia , Gensen Liu , Xingyang Wu , Yiting Li , Yan Yang , Fansong Zeng , Yan Li and Dongfang Ma
and Zhikun Wang
, Abdul Razak Alhassan , Ali Kiani-Pouya , Fatemeh Rasouli , Liming Yang and Ali Movahedi