{"id":9759,"date":"2021-05-22T06:02:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T06:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9759"},"modified":"2021-05-22T06:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T06:02:32","slug":"chinas-father-of-hybrid-rice-yuan-longping-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9759","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s \u2018father of hybrid rice\u2019 Yuan Longping dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostYuan Longping, China\u2019s \u201cfather of hybrid rice\u201d, died on Saturday at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese agronomist was known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s and regarded as a national hero for boosting the country\u2019s grain harvests.<\/p>\n<p>The official Hunan Daily newspaper reported that Yuan died of organ failure in hospital in Changsha, the capital of central China\u2019s Hunan province, just after 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>There had earlier been some confusion about the state of his health, prompting\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3134474\/chinas-father-hybrid-rice-yuan-longping-dies-90\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostYuan Longping, China\u2019s \u201cfather of hybrid rice\u201d, died on Saturday at the age of 90. The Chinese agronomist was known for developing the first hybrid rice&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}