It seems like a company called IRRI bought his technique in 1979, but I can’t find accurate source： > IRRI became involved in hybrid rice research in 1979 htt

It seems like a company called IRRI bought his technique in 1979, but I can’t find accurate source： > IRRI became involved in hybrid rice research in 1979 https://www.irri.org/hybrid-rice https://www.irri.org/hybrid-rice > in 1979 ... my aid Li Yuanqing and I are working in a IRRI experimental plot... from Yuan’s oral autobiography https://books.google.com/books?id=AVp_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT283&lpg=PT283&dq=IRRI+Yuan+Longping+1979&source=bl&ots=371E0Eq2rg&sig=ACfU3U3Zv3TmZTP_m4s7uj4ASwMDRrJlIA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGprvvlOLwAhVfFjQIHaneCaYQ6AEwCXoECAcQAw&authuser=1#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=AVp_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT283&lpg=... > IRRI ... halted its research the following year, only restarting it in 1979 after China had fired up international interest by commercializing the technology. from a journal called Rice Today(the first footnote of https://www.irri.org/hybrid-rice https://www.irri.org/hybrid-rice) EDIT: no, IRRI is a Philippine company.