寶島特有種台灣油芒
糧食危機下的永續農業未來
科學家對研究生涯大多有著「一期一會」的期待。一生僅有一次，命中注定般的珍貴相遇、改變世界的重大發現，許多人畢生也遇不到一次。中研院植物暨微生物學研究所特聘研究員邢禹依博士，在2011年參加母校美國康乃爾大學一場關於「亞洲水稻」的研討會時，一種沒有圖片，只有學名和採集者紀錄的台灣糧食作物「Eccoilopus formosanus（Rendle）A. Camus (syn. Spodiopogon formosanus Rendle)」，成了她50多年農業研究生涯的「一期一會」。
A Cereal for the World?
The Rediscovery of Taiwan Oil Millet
Scientists hope that in their research careers they will make a “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery that can change the world. Dr. Hsing Yue-ie, a distinguished research fellow in the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology at the Academia Sinica, had just such a standout experience in her more than 50 years of agricultural research when she heard the scientific name of a Taiwanese cereal crop—Eccoilopus formosanus (Rendle) A. Camus (synonym: Spodiopogon formosanus Rendle)—along with an indication of when and where the botanical specimen was collected, at a conference on Rice and Language Across Asia at her alma mater, Cornell University, in 2011.
