"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the main production area of 'Jiadou No. 13'......" Chen Jianzhang, the boss of Jiagu Laboratory, took a group of foreign delegations to visit.

The size of the soybean delegation is larger than ever.

Since the National Grain and Oil Information Center officially released the forecast report on China's soybean production, there has been an endless stream of teams applying to come to Jiagu for inspection. Annoyed, Jiagu Laboratory simply organized a group visit.

As a result, a group of more than 30 people from the World Farmers' Organization, mainly agricultural experts from the United States, Brazil, Argentina, the European Union and other countries and regions, appeared in the main soybean producing areas of Northeast Black Province.

Standing in the field, with the breeze blowing on their faces, they looked at the soybean fields as golden as the ocean, and their eyes shone.

The autumn harvest season is approaching, and soybeans are gradually maturing. In the vast farmland, sensors are arranged on the ground, and unmanned aircraft hover in the sky, which transmit data such as soil moisture, crop growth, pests and diseases to Jiagu's data center, and enter the combined harvest state at any time.

"God, is the level of soybean production in the Chinese already so high?"

"It's sure to show us the best. ”

"What's strange about this, we can reach this level at home, I care about whether the production of Chinese is real." ”

"Yes, production is the key. 6 tons per hectare, the Chinese fired a cannon. ”

"Unbelievable. ”

What started as a whispered discussion of a few people gradually turned into a discussion among a group of people.

It's so alarming that everyone's questions come up.

To be honest, if it weren't for the Chinese official saying it, and the Chinese are generous enough to open the tour, they wouldn't believe it.

As the top agricultural experts in various countries, their most basic ability is to judge the direction of crop research, how long to see the light of day, how long to see the results.

Of course, such a judgment is certainly inaccurate, but there is also a certain range.

For example, it should take more than five years for wheat to increase from 300 kg to 400 kg per mu, and for soybeans to increase from 200 kg to 300 kg per mu, it should be at least 10 years or more......

This is just an example, but such a judgment is no joke.

Whether a laboratory spends tens of millions of dollars to join such a competition is often decided based on the judgment that the breakthrough of soybean production is not faster than ten years, and according to the ability of the laboratory, we may complete the project in the next five to ten years, and there is a certain chance of winning by joining the relevant competition, so we can consider joining the competition.

But Jiagu has achieved a breakthrough in soybean production research with lightning speed, which means that other laboratories around the world involved in similar projects have all suffered a big loss.

The Chinese have made a breakthrough, and it is a breakthrough that exceeds their goals, dare they have worked in vain before? Also, should the research continue in the future, and how can it continue?

It's cruel to think about.

However, the world of scientific research is so cruel, those who feel cruel have died in the vast competition, and those who survive can only grit their teeth and persevere.

American soybean breeder Pandel is suffering from this cruelty.

Soybean high-yield research is a pitfall.

Wheat with a yield of 400 kilograms per mu is very common, and corn with a yield of 400 kilograms per mu can only be regarded as average, but he has not thought about soybeans with a yield of 400 kilograms per mu.

From a physiological point of view, soybeans have relatively more protein and fat and less carbohydrates, while corn, rice, and wheat have the opposite. Plants use significantly more energy to synthesize proteins and fats, so it's not surprising that soybean yields are low when the overall energy is the same.

Pandel's research focuses on identifying key high-yield genes, such as those that control photosynthesis, to increase yields by increasing the energy utilization rate of soybeans.

But soybean genetic research is too difficult.

Soybean is a diploid inbred crop evolved from ancient tetraploid, with a huge genome, about 56,000 genes, and 75% of the genes appear in the form of homologous genes.

Pandel's research project has been carried out for three years, but what genes regulate soybean photoperiod and flowering, and what the regulatory mechanism is, has not yet been thoroughly understood.

As soon as the revolutionary subversive "Jiadou No. 13" came out, Pandel was directly confused - this is not a genetically modified variety? How did the Chinese do it?

"The Chinese are so lucky, they must have found a special wild soybean variety. This was the first thing Pander could think of.

Interestingly, there were not a few people in the delegation who agreed.

From the perspective of biodiversity, it is no exaggeration to say that a single weed may change the fate of a people. China, on the other hand, is one of the world's leading countries in terms of abundant biological resources.

For example, there have been two major leaps in rice production in the world, both of which are related to the discovery of wild rice varieties in China.

The first time took place in the sixties of the last century. China used the local dwarf wild rice and cultivated rice to crossbreed dwarf rice, together with the cultivation of dwarf wheat, which led to a large-scale increase in global grain production and triggered the famous "green revolution" in the world agricultural field.

The second breakthrough was the breeding of hybrid rice, which again greatly increased rice yields. The key lies in the discovery by the Chinese of an extremely rare wild rice without pollen in Qiong Province.

There is no shortage of examples when it comes back to soybeans. In the fifties of the last century, soybean cyst nematode disease occurred in soybeans in the United States, which made soybean production on the verge of destruction, and the "savior" was the "little black bean" from China. The USDA has transplanted its disease resistance genes into locally cultivated soybeans to breed new high-yielding and disease-resistant varieties, leading to a rapid recovery in soybean production.

Today's genetically modified soybean is also the blueprint for a wild soybean plant collected by the so-called "plant expert group" in the United States when it visited China. Coincidentally, the person concerned, the American soybean geneticist Brnard, happened to be from the same family as Pandel.

European and American soybean breeders in the international delegation also know this, but they all ignore the "immorality" in it, intentionally or unintentionally, and only use it as evidence of the "good luck" of the Chinese.

I have to say that good luck is a good excuse for inferior skills.

In the face of investors in this way, there is also something to say - shit luck triumphed over hard struggle, which has happened countless times in history, and it will not be the last.

But Chen Jianzhang, who heard this, was sunny in his heart, was he lucky?

Even if it's luck.

What about our European Emperor's possession, I can only say - if you have the ability, you also pray for luck!

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