湖北省农科院的科研人员培育出与目前国内外生产上应用的所有品种都不同的一种新型水稻类型———多小穗水稻 ,而且发现这种水稻的多花多果是受“水稻多花多果基因”的控制而产生的。该成果达到了国内外同类研究的领先水平。1981年 ,湖北省农科院研究员曾左癸在鄂西考察地方稻 Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences researchers to cultivate the current domestic and international production and application of all varieties are different from a new type of rice --- many spikelets rice, and found that this kind of rice and more flowers are affected by “rice Multi-flower fruit gene ”control generated. The achievement has reached the leading level of similar research at home and abroad. In 1981, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences researcher Zuo Zuogui in western Hubei inspected the local rice