Chapter 479: Radiation-proof food
Du Xianyu said with a smile: "The vegetables that are watered with manure are now called organic vegetables, and the price is high.
If we go to the moon, we eat organic food every day. What's so disgusting about this.
In addition, before industrialization, the only fertilizer for the food grown was manure.
It doesn't matter what you water it with, it's the safety and taste of the food.
As long as people don't know the specific situation, they will eat it very sweetly. ”
"I just said casually that it was completely unnecessary to think too much.
Even hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is classified as a harmful food by the World Health Organization, is selling very well.
Food safety is the most important thing now, and safe food should be known on the moon.
What are the types of food on the moon? Li Hao asked Director Du Xianyu.
"Mr. Li, we have already transported the planting plant to the moon base as a whole. Don't you know him specifically?
It is after they are assembled that the microbial system is formed. Maintains a simple material cycle on the lunar base. Du Xianyu asked in astonishment.
"I really don't know much about this, I just know that there is a plantation factory.
Could it be that its seed has already been planted? I remember using just a few plants from the past, and there were no seeds on the shipping list. Li Hao asked curiously.
As he spoke, he asked his glasses to open the virtual light curtain and began to inspect the plantation factory at the lunar base.
Li Hao saw that the entire planting factory was divided into two parts, one was a food planting area and the other was a non-food planting area.
He first set his sights on the food-growing area, which had two kinds of plants.
They are not planted in the soil, but directly in hydroponics.
Li Hao was also very puzzled, how could there be so many plants in the planting factory?
He remembered that the other day, when he was transporting supplies, only a few plants had come to the moon base.
At that time, he was too busy to take a closer look, and he thought it was a simple experiment.
Knowing that he saw the seedling workshop, Li Hao realized that these plants did not start growing from seeds.
It uses plant stem cells to start breeding plant seedlings in a special petri dish.
After that, the seedlings are transplanted to the hydroponic workshop, and the whole process is automated.
Plant stem cells, which are obtained from the leaves of mature plants. Obtained after induced degradation.
This technology is already very mature on the planet, and large industrial plant production companies are using this technology to grow seedlings.
It couldn't attract Li Hao's attention, and what shocked Li Hao was the two plant forms planted.
They were all plants that Li Hao had seen for the first time, and this should have just been cultivated in the biological laboratory.
One plant is a low shrub that bears grayish-white fruits the size of a walnut.
The fruit is so abundant that it covers almost the entire canopy.
There is also a plant like bamboo, which is lower than bamboo and has thicker stems.
Du Xianyu saw the plant that Li Hao was looking at and explained to him: "This is carefully selected by our biological laboratory, which is very suitable for the space environment on the moon.
They are gray rice tree and round-stemmed cabbage, respectively. ”
After Li Hao heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and continued to observe the details of the planting factory.
In addition to water and fertilizer, plant growth also needs to provide the right amount of light and the right temperature.
There are also vital plant hormones that regulate the process of plant growth.
The Moon does not have a dense atmosphere, and its rotation speed is almost the same as its rotational speed.
The duration of the light is short, and the blazing sunlight shines on the plants. High-intensity sunlight will directly kill plants.
These plants are planted in the factory's sealed hall with artificial light sources, and all the environmental factors they require are directly controlled by the machine.
After Li Hao finished looking at the plant factory, he turned his head to Du Xianyu and asked, "What is the growth cycle of the plants produced by the plant factory?" How many people can share it? ”
Du Xianyu almost didn't think about it, and immediately replied: "Mr. Li, the total planting area of gray rice trees is 12,000 square meters, and the planting factory is divided into multi-layer planting.
The gray rice tree ripens once a month, and its monthly yield is enough to bear the number of 1,000 people dining for a month.
Its nutrients are very balanced, including a certain amount of starch, dietary fiber, unsaturated fatty acids, and trace elements.
If you eat only gray rice, you won't get any malnutrition.
Round-stemmed vegetables are ripe every half a month, with a total planting area of 28,000 square meters. It is also a monthly production that can meet the needs of 1,000 people.
It has a completely different taste on different stem nodes, and the taste is very varied and nutritious, and can be paired with any ingredient.
The leaves are tender and delicious, fat and juicy. It is a very excellent vegetable. ”
Li Hao listened to Director Du Xianyu's introduction of these vegetables, and he almost drooled, looking forward to the taste of these foods.
"I saw that the branches of the gray rice tree and the round stem were very thick, and the gravity of the moon was very small. Why are they designed to take this approach. Li Hao carefully observed the two plants, and he asked suspiciously.
These plants are selected by biological laboratories, and all the details are written by scientists to write the genetic code and then express the genes.
Artificially created plants, the genes are more concise.
Every detail should have its role, and no useless genes should be written into its chromosomes.
When Du Xianyu heard Li Hao's question, he immediately explained: "Mr. Li, do you know that there is a high-energy directional magnetic field on the moon to defend against the high-energy particles of the universe.
But it also can't completely eliminate the entry of high-energy particles.
Some of these energetic particles are absorbed by plants. stored in its cells.
These eroded cells have a certain amount of radiation.
Due to the enrichment of food, if you eat this cell. High-energy particles will exist in large quantities in the human body, and eventually lead to human cell disease.
Our solution is to get rid of these cells.
Specially reprogrammed the immune cells of the plant. When they find these high-energy cells, they engulf them directly.
The immune cells then run into specialized sacs and begin to kill the irradiated cells. It doesn't affect the food we eat.
The plantation plant is blocked by walls, and few high-energy particles pass through. This method has little effect on the plant as a whole and is very effective.
I can assure you that none of the plants produced at our company's lunar base contain radiation. It is a veritable radiation-proof plant. ”
When Li Hao heard Director Du say this, he was secretly relieved.
Food safety is paramount at all times.
Especially on the Moon, the medical conditions are not as good as those on Earth.
It is to reduce the possible morbidity in order to reduce the mortality rate of the inhabitants of the moon.
This radiation-resistant plant is not only used on the moon.
When the space age really develops, human beings will take spacecraft to sail far.
It is perfectly possible to grow this plant in a spacecraft. It can greatly increase the confidence of astronauts in spacecraft.