Abstract:

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) is one of the main channels of our country to support basic research. In order to provide references for determining the priority fields and directions in the disciplines of genetics and breeding of rice and wheat crops supported by NSFC, the research status and trends in rice and wheat crops genetics and breeding fields were analyzed based on their application data. The data showed that the application numbers in both rice and wheat genetics and breeding fields kept on increasing in recent 15 years, in which, the number of applications about rice was more than that about wheat. The data on research fields showed that the most applications in rice were about development biology, accounting for 37.4%, followed by resistance, accounting for 27.6%. The most applications in wheat were about resistance, accounting for 38.1%, followed by development and quality, accounting for 23.7% and 21.5%, respectively. The data on research levels showed that the most applications in rice were about gene clone and function analysis, accounting for 41.6%, the next was about molecular marker and gene mapping, accounting for 28.8%. The most applications in wheat was about molecular marker and gene mapping, accounting for 36.5%, the next was about gene clone and function analysis, accounting for 28.2%. Based on the domestic and foreign research status, suggestions were proposed that the funding to the researches about high productivity, high quality, and resistance should be continually strengthened, furthermore, the basic researches combining genomics, biotechnology and bioinformatics with traditional biology should be encouraged.

Key words: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Rice crop, Wheat crop, Genetics and breeding