Chapter 24 Principles of Genetic Modification of Spice Trees

Dennis believes that Yang Zhou still has a weakness, and this weakness is almost a common problem among scientists.

That is, in your own professional field, if you find something that can make a technological breakthrough, you will definitely not hesitate to do it!

Dennis felt that the average cancer patient who had been arranged before might be too low.

Yang Zhou has now cooperated with Baobao Group, and there is no shortage of money at all, so he has to meet Yang Zhou from other places.

And what Yang Zhou has been promoting recently is that global biologists work together to sequence the genes of animals and plants on the earth!

Dennis is ready to find someone to play the super-rich, not only to spend a lot of money on treatment, but also to bring enough sincerity to go to the red beach.

For example, collect seeds of rare plants and characteristic plants in the world, and even physical specimens to meet Yang Zhou.

Yang Zhou likes plant genes so much, so he definitely can't refuse such a kind behavior of a rich man.

So Dennis began to choose the right candidate, and finally chose a down-and-out actor among the cancer patients, as well as a retired veteran of the Afu Kingdom and a destitute adventurer.

Of course, the identities of these people will also be specially packaged, after a period of training, plus it will take some time to collect the seeds of various exotic plants around the world, etc.

It just so happens that Yang Zhou doesn't seem to have returned to Red Beach recently, and Dennis has time to prepare.

He had already realized that it was not realistic to ask Aubreira to invite Yang Zhou back to the desert, and the money he had spent before was not in vain, at least he could ask them when Yang Zhou would go back.

In the cancer hospital, the treatment plan has not been accelerated much, and everyone is actually waiting for the cancer plant to mature after three months before taking the drug, and recently they are waiting for the red beach and surrounding cities to travel and wait.

Yang Zhou's work in the Beijing laboratory has finally made great progress, and now it has fused spice flavors such as chili, pepper, and star anise into one plant.

In order to speed up the research, Yang Zhou also used some space spring water, explaining to Tang Yue that he had collected excretory experimental materials that had not been used up.

Tang Yue was very resistant to these accelerated springs, and Yang Zhou was happy to do experiments on his own.

Yang Zhou soon discovered that plant science and technology are facing a grim reality, that is, growth time!

The growth time of many plants is not particularly fast, just like the soothing tree, it takes about 2 years to mature and grow to a height of more than ten meters.

Yang Zhou can't afford to wait two years to experiment with this new plant on Earth.

So in the end, we have to find a way to get the Genesis Mushroom No. 1 of the underground river under the desert to find an opportunity to release some spores containing spring water, and finally extract the accelerated spring water from the spores!

In this way, it is reasonable to speed up the growth of plants on the earth.

In large-scale planting, it can be done slowly, but in small-scale experiments, it must mature quickly.

In addition to doing experiments in the Beijing laboratory, Yang Zhou is also controlling the Genesis Mushroom No. 1 to constantly explore the underground river, and now the Genesis Mushroom No. 1 has shrunk to one or two meters in length, width and height, and is already very flexible in the depths of the ground.

The source of the underground river is in the Helan Mountains, and Yang Zhou's idea is to find the outlet of the underground river in the red beach.

Then release some spores, so that the water in the deep well, also spores.

In this way, Professor Zhang, who is studying replicating spores, may realize that deep underground, there is a matrix of replicating spores, which is releasing microspores.

There is almost no way to find the mother body in the underground river, but to pay attention to the countless water sources of the Tengger Desert and control the collection of replicating spores.

It was still too difficult to let the plants grow into gourmet dishes, and in the end only a small part of the process was completed, and through the gene fusion function, Yang Zhou synthesized more than 70 kinds of spice trees covering various delicacies in the mysterious space.

According to scientists, there are as many as 4,787 natural spices on the earth, many of which are even toxic or addictive.

For example, there are many flavors in the raw materials of cigarettes, and tobacco leaves themselves are considered to be a plant with a special taste.

There are only more than 400 kinds of spices allowed to be used in China.

This fusion of more than 70 spices on a single tree has also improved Yang Zhou's gene editing technology a lot.

He already had a vague sense of what was going on with the cancer plant.

Because in the process of studying spices, Yang Zhou found that many spices are actually Chinese herbal medicines.

For example: ginkgo seeds, which can moisten the lungs and calm asthma, dispel fishiness and increase fragrance; White peony, bitter and sour, can be fishy; Angelica dahurica, the smell is bitter and fragrant, the taste is cool and slightly bitter, used as a seasoning, it can remove the peculiar smell, increase the flavor and so on.

The so-called spices do not mean that they are all kinds of fragrances, but that they give a special feeling to the taste.

Many of them are actually bitter, and the bitter taste of good medicine in traditional Chinese medicine is now associated with it, which means that most of the Chinese medicine smell and taste are relatively special.

Therefore, activating the body's immune system may also have something to do with taste.

Looking back now, cancer drugs seem to be very bitter at the beginning!

"This time the food tree is considered a failure of research, but we got a spice tree, which is not bad." Yang Zhou smiled at Tang Yue, who was helping in the laboratory.

Tang Yue was still frowning, she had participated in most of the experiments, but she still didn't understand how to fuse so many plants together.

In the past, the relationship between her and Yang Zhou had not been thoroughly clarified, so it was naturally difficult to ask about some techniques, but now that she has met her parents, Tang Yue will ask if she doesn't understand.

"I still don't understand, I'm confused, let me repeat the experiment, I don't know what to do at all." Tang Yue frowned.

Yang Zhou thought about it and decided to tell Tang Yue a secret.

"Are you wondering why the special genes I extracted can be directly added to other plant gene pools?" Yang Zhou said with a smile.

"En, gene editing, isn't it only possible to use YZ bacteria to change the genes in the original gene database? When it was a cancer plant, I couldn't understand why those endangered plants had the ability to activate white blood cells through gene editing. Tang Yue wondered.

"Haha, okay, then I'll tell you a secret, in fact, it's related to special proteins." Yang Zhou explained with a smile.

"Egg whites?"

Yang Zhou nodded and said, "Yes, protein, we are not doing editing, but really doing gene code editing!" Fusion spice plants, in fact, is to find the relevant genes of synthetic spices, and then fuse this gene on the same plant, the whole process, a bit like Tetris, the special protein is also extracted from YZ bacteria, this technology can not be made public. ”

Tang Yue suddenly realized that there was a difference in the nature of the technology, no wonder she always couldn't understand it.

Of course, this has something to do with the fact that Yang Zhou did not explain what the various liquids were when doing the experiment.

Biological experiments, this situation is normal, it seems to be a mixture of various liquids, but these liquids may be some kind of gene, or they may be special bacteria and fungi, and there are genetic fragments.

Without anyone to explain, it is absolutely incomprehensible.