毛主席教导我们:“有了优良品种,即不增加劳动力、肥料,也可获得较多的收成。”选育良种是提高农作物产量的有效措施。辐射育种就是利用某些高能射线照射农作物种子、苗木或其他器官,使其产生遗传性变异,再经过几代的选择和培育,而选育成生产上所要求的良种。因此,辐射育种是农作物育种的新途径,也是现代原子能技术在农业上应用的一项新成果。 Chairman Mao teaches us: “With excellent varieties, that is, we can get more crops without increasing labor force and fertilizers.” Breeding seeds is an effective measure to increase crop yields. Radiation breeding is the use of certain high-energy rays of crop seeds, nursery stock or other organs, causing it to have genetic variation, and then after several generations of selection and breeding, and breeding into the production of the required varieties. Therefore, radiation breeding is a new way of crop breeding and a new achievement of agricultural application of modern atomic energy technology.