What is especially admirable is that they have labored away without regard to public recognition. For example, many of Taiwan's prized vegetables, including the golden tomato, which has recently created quite a stir for its value to dieters, are varieties developed by the AVRDC, but they have never made a big deal out of it. They don't even assign names to the varieties they produce, just numbers.
尤其令他敬佩的是，亞蔬一向默默耕耘，凡事不居功，像台灣最有名的櫻桃蕃茄、黑桔仔，以及近來因有助減肥而聲名大噪的黃金蕃茄，都是亞蔬品種，但亞蔬從不宣揚，也不自己命名，這種樸實的精神，令人分外敬佩。