ABSTRACT
In 2008, Qiguo Zhao, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), first developed a new conception of functional agriculture in “Agricultural Science and Technology in China: A Road Map to 2050” (Zhao 2011). In cooperation, Dr. Yin’s team at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has been conducting systematic studies and industrialization practices of functional agriculture since 2008.
