 Good afternoon everyone. Wow, this is a blockbuster seminar. Coming in and seeing the crowd, I thought it's the beach's annual seminar. So, are there more seats here? No, already blockbuster. So, first of all I want to thank the seminar committee for inviting me to do the introduction for Dr. Glenn Gregorian. It's really a great pleasure for me and as you can see at the first slide, Dr. Gregorian is our senior scientist too at the plant breeding and genetics division. He has been working on solidity and problem soil tolerance rate development and having assumed also as the acting global coordinator for Inger and Met. Dr. Gregorian earned his master's degree and PhD degree from the University of the Philippines and as you can see here his list of experience and higher research achievements since he joined Erie in 1986. Well, if you think that I was invited to summarize his long long CV and to enumerate his achievements, you're wrong. I'm not a good summarizing CV or reading the long CV but I've been invited and requested by Glenn himself to do the introduction because he thinks I'm a good friend that would not compromise his integrity and dignity during the introduction as has been experienced in the past speakers. So Glenn has been a colleague since 1986, a decade after I joined Erie. He was working with doctors in Adira and I was also working on soil problems and that started the working relationship with Glenn who had seen Glenn rise to his professional ladder since he joined in 1986. I've seen him work very hard as a research aid and then rose up to be a scientist and then senior scientist. During this time, during his professional student at Erie, he has given contributed to the varieties here in the Philippines as well in other countries particularly in the varieties for soil problems, tolerance, salinity. If many of you may not know that it was Glenn who started also some work on nutritious or healthy rice. I remember then that doctors in Adira had instructed Glenn and myself to do a research on high zinc rise and high iron rise. So Glenn had also been working with that for several years until he was brought to be a plant reader in Africa. So the results of those reading work have contributed various varieties for salinity and cool elevation in the Philippines and in other countries as I have mentioned. And he had also been the mentor for more than 20 PhD students, also more than 20 MS students and several postdoctoral fellows. He had also been an acting, always acting deputy, division head, acting coordinator of men and everyone who is not available, he would be on his behalf. So there was a time that he was complaining to me that he was already overacting. Only a witness to the achievements of Glenn as he moved from research aid to senior scientists, I was also a witness to the loss of his hair, as you would notice in those pictures. Glenn had a way of really avoiding the loss of hair. If you notice, aside from Macandoi in the GRC, Glenn is the next most photographed ear staff. So he would always have a close up, minus his hair or a cap when he is photographed. Just to help, somebody told me, the Zender Committee asked me to mention some of the experiences with Glenn but Glenn has been working with me in the salinity problem and sting deficiency problem and that was taken way back in the 1980s and I've learned a lot from Glenn. Being so junior from me, I've learned a lot about plant breeding and I hope he learned about soils. So thank you Glenn for that. However, I've also learned a lot about family relations. Although he talked about breeding, I haven't adopted that to the family relations as well as he did. So to give more time to Glenn's seminar, this afternoon seminar on Glenn is the dream of a rice breeder. So we'll have to listen to Glenn and what his dreams about, not only rice but other crops. But there's one dream that I don't think he had shared with you. As a very close friend, he had shared, I think he only shared his dream to me and this is being the president of the Philippines. Glenn's dream, just last word, Glenn had a seminar too. He keeps the members yesterday and I was there, I also had a pleasure of listening to his seminar yesterday about naming rice breads and it was hilarious. And I thought, you know, he should give another seminar on that. And the thing that I want to request to the audience right now is to ask also questions as much as they did yesterday. So we expect questions at the end of the seminar. Thank you very much. My forecast of what's happening in the next 20 years. Okay, now I'm telling you my dreams of a rice breeder. I have a dream in 1963 where the popular Martin Luther King. But now I'll be talking more on the dreams that I have. Then after that, I'll show you the dreams of the future. I have a complete future. I'm more accurate than my bar times here. By this future, I can always tell the whole seminar. So I'll just show you the step by step, but I'll give you the details of when they came, when they got married, when they got married. I'm not talking about my hair here or for the lack of it. But I'll be talking things, the picture of my ideas at Geary. Okay, and this is my first picture when I crossed the railroad and joined Geary in 1986. And I have one button with me. And now I'm living here with a whole gang of kids and a caravan of materials. So, and this is my second picture where I start dreaming. Start dreaming. But of course you're just excited and swing around and enjoying things. And that's just the time when I become a search assistant that I start to be a dreamer. So all these have a story. This is when I was a search aide. This is when I was a search assistant. Senior was an assistant. Then he kicked me out and made a consultant. Then I became a postdoc. Then after postdoc, I became a Vietnam consultant. Then I became an IRF, imperialist or a research fellow. Then I became a photon again. Then I became a sender to Africa. Then after that I became a senior scientist. Now I'm living at this age. Okay, so that's probably any question. As my mentor said, also dreamers are like painters. Of course, dreamers should be dreamers, visionaries. If you're not a dreamer, don't be a dreamer. Be a petitioner. So dreamers are like painters. First, what's the definition of land building? Land building is genetically modulating plants for human needs. So all are GMOs. It's genetically modified. Everything is genetically modified. Everything you are genetically modified is a mixture of different genes. Land building is an art and science. So don't miss that one. It's an art. First, it's not science and art, it's an art and science. So you should be a dreamer. That's why I always say land building is a little bit of arithmetic and a lot of imaginations. And the other, as a painter, no, this is my lesson to everyone. No two plant builders will work on a single-marked masterpiece. They will aspire. So a plant builder should have one masterpiece. That's a lesson for everyone. The second is, every discipline will offer color to plant builders. You show the mechanics, you show the tools, everything. So it's the plant builder who chooses what color you want. So don't force too much because dreamers are dreamers. They take their time and use your tools. And of course, plant builders are dreamers. My first dream was to solve the problem of price. Before I'm looking, in what angle, you can see that price and solve are going together. You can see that only in a saw shaker. But my dream really is to have a very soft plant right that grows in a shaker. That's my present dream. Very angelistic. That's why I'm closing my eyes there. The second dream is to catch the salty gene in action. That's where I've done my MS and my PhD on catching the genes in action, which technically I caught it. And a lot of people helped me out to reduce it and apply it, which helped me show it later. The third dream is, as Dr. Sanadira before, they say, 50 years ago, we are working on coca leaf. Coca leaf is a traditional plant. And it's the only one called unpriced before. 50 years ago, they were working on coca leaf. Up to now, they are working on coca leaf. But I would say now, we are already in the FN478. It's not 508. The FN478 is a tolerant plant. FN478 is very tolerant more than coca leaf. So that's achievement that has been accomplished for both of you. This is FN478. This is part of my PhD thesis. And now this becomes the check to all over the world for salt colas and the seedlings seeds. So my dream has already fulfilled in some sense. And based on that, this is also my dream when I assumed to lead the salt colas breeding project. That's what I said in the year 2010. That was here 2010 years. Target, year 2010 target, continuation expectation from breeding and crop management research to achieve targets in saline and problem soils. I always say our target is 3.3 and the yield increase is more than 50% and contribution for breeding is 50 and crop management is 50. Crop and management, we have to divide it into the yield management and the crop management. So all the rest, this is my dream to show that it's 60 million hectares for feed efficiency. Improve it at more than 25% seed efficiency and as it's open. That means saline and problem soils. Let's look at this one. I'll show you the proof that it has been achieved. Like this VINADAN 8, I'll just show you an example. This is planted in Bangladesh, what makes it very special to me because IR66, 6-6-9-4-6, that's 3 yard, that's 1-4-9, that's 1, that's 1, is FL3-4-9. This is part of the marking population when this is. So I have a bonus. I got the most important variety, I saw the outline, FL4-7-8 and I have a sister line that is released as a right. So what bonus it will get more than this one? So it's more than your thesis, we expand it more, we were able to get a product. Another one is lately, just this last year, we have this Salinas 11 and say, RZ 2013, RZ 2-3-2-6. This is planted, was planted in Bohol and the farmer, lady farmer was crying because it has been 2 cropping season, it has no crop. It was devastated by sea water inclusion. Only this time, all the other farm area has been affected by salinity and only this variety released in 2013 was able to produce grains and each yielded. And the good thing is this is also, accidentally this is a red rice. So now the irrigated rice area, they are starting planting this one as a modern red rice. So they are fetching additional 5 pesos more than the original harvest that they have. So that's the bonus that makes the dream really come true. And we have a new source of tolerance now. Before we were looking for Ocari, now we have, look at this one. Ayatma Gen is a normal area, but this has a productive state so you can see this one is very tolerant. JJ, good name JJ, we'll just call it Jambujet for sure. But that's the code name there. So we achieved this one. And this one is, I showed this before, just to show you that we have improved the yield. This is from 3 locations in Bangladesh. You can see here, these are 3 locations. And you can see the breed of 47. This is the southern variety. And here in red, southern variety, Bangladesh. And this is the popular variety. Under normal, under less than, is before, this is a little bit salty. Okay, just to give you an example. The measure of salinity is electrical conductivity. To give you an idea of the conductivity of sea water is about 50 to 54. The same as your sweat, the same as your tears. I don't know the measurements, but you have the same. And rice starts to die at easy port. An easy plug is the threshold. If you have your soup, if you have your silicon soup, it's easily 25 to 26 out of 30. Just to give you an idea. So rice is very sensitive to salinity. So to show you here, under moderate low, almost normal, the yield of the southern variety is very, very good, very high. It has a 1.3 tons per hectare difference. Under mild salinity, that's 22 percent. Under mild salinity, you have 2 tons difference. And this is about 43 percent. Under very high salinity, you can see 2.7 tons difference. Under, that's 100 percent yield. So just to show you that we have achieved the sole tolerance. But I'm not going to talk about that one. Now this is another example. This is 21 villages in India. And this has been released as a variety. Sea are done for a pipe. And look at this one. It has the other variety there. It has an increase of average of 3.5 tons per hectare. About the sole tolerance is 4.9 tons per hectare. This is 10 to 118 percent yield of the boundary. So we are already there, 50 percent yield of the boundary. And to make it clearer, management, crop management, and variety. If you have harvest variety, only improve harvest variety and harvest management. It has a yield of 1.77 tons per hectare. Improve management, harvest variety becomes 2 tons per hectare, which is an increase of 16 percent. If you have improved variety, harvest management has 3 tons per hectare, which is 69 percent. By the way, the improved management here is only the same pair. So that's why it's only 16 percent. And if you have improved variety and improved management, you can go up to 180 percent. So it's not 1 plus 1 equals to 2. It's 1 plus 1 equals to 3. So total variety is better to improve crop and nutrient management. Thus, increase yield and stabilize productivity. Okay, sorry, I have to show this to everyone because this may be every lecture I have. I always show this one. What is saline tolerance at harvest prices? How to make it simply positive? I always say salinity doesn't occur around. It's always associated with all harvest prices. You're going to see any area where salinity is only a problem. It's always associated with harvest price. So that knowing the problem is offering half of the solution. So know the problem and see, usefully in saline areas you have acid. Acid salinity area. And if you have acid salinity area, you have post post and zinc deficiency. And if you have acid salinity area, you have pylone and aluminum toxicity. If you have acid salinity area, you have post pylone and zinc deficiency. And you have pylone and sulfide toxicity. And if you have acid salinity pixel, that is usually in salt.