Insect-resistant and nutritious Chen Ching-san, a researcher in the Institute of Botany at the Academia Sinica, is currently working on gene transfer research for paddy rice. He hopes on the one hand to improve the quality of the rice, and increase its protein content. On the other, he wants to make the rice more resistant to disease and insects, so that insecticide use can be reduced and production volume increased.
中研院植物所研究員陳慶三目前致力於水稻基因轉殖研究，一方面希望能改良水稻的品種，使其蛋白質的含量更高；一方面使水稻可以抗病、抗蟲，減少使用農藥、增加產量。