我的父母都是农民。大约在1998年的时候,他们到美国来探亲,问我:“听说你在植物科学上做得还不错,能不能跟我们讲讲你做的是什么？”我当时愕然。确实这些年我在植物生物学方面做了一些工作,也取得了一些成就,可我却无法向二老讲清楚我到底做的是什么。从那以后,我就想,除了现在这些基础生物学研究工作,我是不是还要做一些 My parents are peasants. About the time of 1998, they came to the United States to visit relatives and asked me: “I heard that you did a good job in plant science and can you tell us what you are doing?” I was stunned. Indeed, I have done some work in plant biology and made some achievements in these years, but I can not tell the elders exactly what I did. Since then, I thought, in addition to the basic biological research work now, I still do some