Chapter 7: The Death of the Seed

Seed germination is good news, as it proves that the seeds produced by the system are of high quality and that there is no problem with the idea of farming.

Yang Zhou stepped on the land of the mysterious space, and there was no difference between it and the land outside.

It's just that in this space, Yang Zhou's perception has greatly improved, and he can feel that countless lives are thriving in the entire land.

He is most concerned about how much experience he currently has, in the upper right corner of the virtual interface, it shows 16458 gold and 30 experience points.

16458 is Yang Zhou's dog Dong Baitiao plus the amount of borrowing and all the cash, and the experience points increased by 30 points last night!

This made Yang Zhou feel pleasantly surprised, he could still use his mobile phone to access the Internet in the mysterious space, and when he opened Douyin, he saw that his video had nearly 100 views, and the number of people who followed the "Spring Breeze Ten Miles" account was exactly 30 people.

Looking at the reviews again, there are also more than 30 comments.

Yang Zhou studied it for a while, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, those who followed him, and the people who commented, gave him 1 experience point.

These comments are very heartwarming, all encouraging Yang Zhou to be strong, terminal illness is not terrible, and he must not give up.

Douyin's algorithm is more complex, and the published videos will have an initial traffic pool exposure, and then according to the data, a larger traffic pool will be invested.

As long as the video is high-quality, the attention and play will grow rapidly.

Yang Zhou knew that he didn't have to worry about experience points, and 10,000 experience points might be able to reach it in a few days.

The quality of his videos is not particularly high, but he is handsome, more distinctive, bald and bare eyebrows, and he is terminally ill, and sympathetic people will click the appreciation button.

Of course, with the spread of the video, there will definitely be a lot of trolls in the future, suspecting Yang Zhou of fraud and the like, which is all due to human nature.

stayed in the mysterious space until noon, and then Yang Zhou exited the space to find a primary school girl for dinner.

I just happened to invite her to dinner today, and thank her for taking him to the hospital yesterday.

When he entered the space, he was in the toilet cubicle, and when he went out, he didn't attract the attention of others, so Yang Zhou called Tang Yue's canteen directly to gather.

When Tang Yue appeared in the cafeteria, her mouth was high, and she felt a little aggrieved.

In the morning, Yang Zhou's personality didn't seem to be as friendly as before, Yang Zhou used to like to chat with her, accompany her to do experiments and explain patiently, but this time I felt that Yang Zhou was a little alienated from her.

Yang Zhou saw the beautiful little girl pouting, and immediately understood what the situation was.

His attitude was indeed a bit problematic in the morning, after all, he was a little impatient because he was pressed by something.

"Okay, okay, today, the seniors have a treat and have a big meal! How about a small stove in the cafeteria? Yang Zhou patted Tang Yue on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"Really?" Tang Yue suddenly asked with a smile.

"Of course, let's go." Yang Zhou smiled and nodded, and didn't mention the morning's events, Tang Yue was also a snack and was easily distracted by eating.

Although Tang Yue is very active about eating, Yang Zhou knows that this girl's family is definitely a super rich master, and Yang Zhou accidentally saw that Tang Yue was picked up by Rolls-Royce when he came home on weekends.

However, Tang Yue is usually very low-key, and he wears very ordinary clothes, and he never wears any expensive jewelry watches.

Taking Tang Yue to eat a "luxurious" lunch of about 100 yuan, Yang Zhou was about to go back to the laboratory to wait for the mentor, he had already called Professor Bai to ask him, he would come back in the afternoon, and he could just report on the change of subject.

Tang Yue's mood returned again, chatting about various topics along the way, some of which were between classmates, and some of which were about her annual holiday to travel to various countries.

"This year's epidemic, it's better not to run around." Yang Zhou couldn't help but remind.

"En, this year, our family is going to travel to the plateau and not go abroad, I haven't been to Lasa yet, senior brother wants to go or not, we can go together." Tang Yue squinted his eyes, as if he thought of the Potala Palace, and said happily.

Yang Zhou waved his hand again and again, this holiday is a critical period for him, chemotherapy, earning money, and dissertations all go hand in hand, how can he have the heart to travel.

Tang Yue rubbed the corners of his clothes in disappointment, and followed Yang Zhou's side a little sullenly, stepping on his shadow as if he was angry.

Back in the laboratory, Tang Yue began to brush the bucket sound, Yang Zhou waited for a while, Professor Bai finally appeared, and brought watermelons to Yang Zhou and Tang Yue.

Yang Zhou hurriedly took it and put it in the refrigerator, and the watermelon in the summer was only delicious when it was frozen.

Professor Bai is almost sixty years old, with a Chinese face and gray hair, but he is very energetic and has a good personality, but he is more strict in academics, and Yang Zhou actually likes Professor Bai very much.

He knocked on the door of the lounge room of Professor Bai's laboratory, which was not Professor Bai's office, only a rest room was reserved for Professor Bai, and the conversation was usually in the room.

Yang Zhou had already said on the phone that he wanted to talk to Professor Bai about something important, so Professor Bai came over and went into the lounge to wait for Yang Zhou.

Waiting for Yang Zhou to sit behind the sofa, Professor Bai asked, "Is something wrong?" Why is this image now? ”

Yang Zhou took off the cap, and Professor Bai saw Yang Zhou's current Voldemort shape.

There is no rule in the university that you can't be bald, and Professor Bai was just surprised, because as far as he knew, Yang Zhou was a very peaceful child.

"Professor, I want to change the subject!" Yang Zhou had already thought of a reason, so he said firmly.

"Hahaha, your eyebrows are shaved too? Well, this determination is really a bit firm, in fact, I have long suggested that you change the subject, talk about what to change, if the prospect is good, I really recommend that you transfer to Zhibo, I will operate specifically, you have this potential, the doctor must be fine. Professor Bai laughed.

He is very optimistic about Yang Zhou, this little guy entered the university with a score of 730 in the college entrance examination, and his grades have always been very good.

Yang Zhou said slowly: "CRISPR gene editing, I want to do this." ”

Professor Bai frowned suddenly, because he didn't have a deep study in this area, and if Yang Zhou chose this direction, he wouldn't be able to help much.

In fact, Professor Bai would like Yang Zhou to choose the topic of molecular mechanism of plant organ formation or the topic of biological hybridization, which is his research direction.

"This topic is too big, and it is difficult to produce results, we are a lot behind in China, and CRISPR gene editing technology is now used more in biological cells." Bai Shulong shook his head slowly and said.

Obviously, I am not optimistic about this subject.

Yang Zhou said firmly: "Professor, I have also read a lot of papers in this area, and I have some ideas in my heart, and I want to try it, and CRISPR technology does not have high requirements for experimental equipment, and the cost is relatively small." ”

Before getting the golden finger of the system, Yang Zhou did have a certain understanding of CRISPR technology.

Gene editing, unlike many physical experiments, requires only a microscope, a syringe, an RNase-free bench, a glass drawer, and so on.

The most expensive should be a confocal microscope of about five million dollars, and this equipment is not available in Bai Shulong's laboratory.

However, there are other laboratories in the School of Biological Sciences of Qingbei University, and as long as the tutor helps, it can definitely be borrowed.

The enzymes needed for the experiment, a few thousand pieces per bottle, can be used for one or two years.

The difficulty lies in choosing what genes to modify, which segments to modify, and what to modify, and in general, it is 99.99% of the time that the modification fails.

Bai Shulong's fingers bent, tapping on the tabletop, and after a long time, he sighed: "I actually want you to inherit my research, do you know what Yuan Lao's greatest wish is?" I have worked with him before, and he said that his greatest wish was to grow 2 meters of rice, but unfortunately he did not see ........"

"Our country's biotechnology is backward, now 80% of the seeds are imported, the soybean industry is completely controlled by foreign countries, and the gene editing technology is too backward, I hope you take the route of hybrid cultivation and blindly use new technologies, it is difficult to succeed!"

Bai Shulong thought a lot, Yang Zhou listened patiently, he was very clear about the situation in the domestic biological world.

For example, the soybean problem is completely dumped by foreign genetically modified soybeans, and the production cost plus the cost of transportation to China is cheaper than the domestic production cost.

The same is true for vegetables, in 2018, China imported a total of 70 million kilograms of agricultural crop seeds, and spent 300 million US dollars on vegetable seeds alone.

Vegetable seeds such as domestic tomatoes, peppers, onions, and eggplants are also imported from abroad.

In addition, corn, potatoes and radishes are also highly dependent on imports.

Taking the Northeast and the Huang-Huai-Hai region as an example, the corn grown in the Huang-Huai-Hai area is the "Xianyu 335" variety of the beautiful country pioneer company.

The corn grown in the Northeast comes mainly from Germany.

White radish is imported from the country of sticks, and the white radishes of the country of the sticks have the advantages of good quality, slenderness, more juice and less residue, and storage resistance, so even if the price is more than 20 times that of domestic seeds, it is still more competitive in the market.

"Foreign seeds" not only occupy an important position in China, but also the price is generally higher than that of domestic seeds.

There is even such a strange phenomenon, that is, "imported seeds are sold by the grain, while domestic seeds are sold by the pound." ”

For example, in 2015, the price of broccoli seeds imported from the foot basin country was 3,500 yuan per bag, which rose to 6,500 yuan per bag in 2016, and now it has risen to more than 20,000 yuan.

In addition to lagging behind in the field of lithography machines and chips, in fact, in other aspects, it is also lagging behind a lot.

Of course, thanks to the hybrid rice technology researched by Yuan Lao, grain production has now increased, and there is more land in the country to grow other crops.

Gene technology and hybrid technology themselves are two technical routes.

In the past, Professor Bai actually took the hybrid route, and many of the topics he studied were to transform plants through hybridization.

Now Yang Zhou has proposed to use CRISPR technology, which is actually gene editing technology.

Gene editing technology and genetically modified technology are also completely different, and genetically modified technology is equivalent to adding genes from other species to the genome of the target species.

Gene editing technology modifies the original genes of the species.

At present, it belongs to the most cutting-edge technology, and all the results have not been used for commercial use in the research and experimental stage, which is actually a scientific and technological competition, which is related to the scientific and technological hegemony of the next century.

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