Li, Dajue 黎大爵

Prof. Li Dajue, Founder and Vice President of Beijing Green Energy Institute, has more than 50 years of experiences in collection, evaluation, characterization and breeding of economic plants including guar bean, safflower, sweet sorghum, chickpea, lentils and ornamental plants; regeneration and enhancement of plant genetic resources. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in both Chinese and English, and authored 12 books including some of the authoritative reference books on safflower and sweet sorghum in the world. From 1959 to 1999, Prof. Li served as a Research Fellow and Professor for the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His early work created about 2,800 accessions of safflower germplasm and many new cultivars of sweet sorghum and safflower. Supported by FAO, he organized the First International Sweet Sorghum Trails in India, Indonesia, Thailand and China; sponsored the First National Sweet Sorghum Training Course. He presided over the First International Sweet Sorghum Conference in 1997, the Second International Sustainable Agriculture Conference for Food, Energy and Industry in 2001 and the Third International Safflower Conference in 1993. After his retirement from the Institute of Botany in 1999, Prof. Li in 2001 founded the Beijing Green Energy Institute (BGEI) and served as Vice President since. With BGEI he continued his research on sweet sorghum and has bred several new cultivars and many innovation germplasm. Major progresses in his research also include a super male sterile line with high stalk sugar content; a patented storage technology of sweet sorghum stalk and sugarcane, greatly improving the efficiency of sugar refinery and ethanol plant using those as feedstock. 黎大爵 副所长, 北京绿能经济植物研究所 中国科学院植物研究所研究员，北京绿能经济植物研究所副所长，主要从事高能作物的研究。主持、完成了联合国粮农组织和国际植物遗传资源研究所等国际组织资助的14个国际合作研究项目，4个国家自然科学基金会项目，一项中国科学院重点研究项目，发明专利三项；先后收集了国、内外红花种质资源2800多份，收集了国、内外重要甜高粱种质资源和主要优良品种。荣获国务院政府特殊津。发起并主持召开了多次全国红花和甜高粱会议，主持、召开了第一届国际甜高粱会议、第二届国际可持续农业会议和第三届国际红花会议，出版了世界上主要的中、英文红花、甜高粱专著12部。选育了一批优良的红花、甜高粱品种并在生产上推广应用。