Chapter 54: Transforming the Metal Vine
In the next few days, Yang Zhou spent most of his time in his own room doing experiments, but in fact he entered a mysterious space.
He collected a lot of plant seeds, and no one else knew what he was studying.
We are still researching super-enriched plants, and slowly some results have been produced, such as gene editing with YZ bacteria, and finally the ability of super-enriched plants has been strengthened again.
Some modified plants can theoretically be used in practical applications.
It's just that to do plant-related experiments, you still have to wait for the plants to grow and mature, and then you can observe the actual effect.
Biological laboratories in several other directions have also successively appeared some results, and a large number of papers have been sent to international journals.
Foreign biologists are anxious, especially those who join the biological planning team, with a budget of 500 billion US dollars, and now they can't compare with the achievements of Chinese biologists.
The replica fungus they waited for is still floating on a freighter in the sea.
In terms of publishing papers, Yang Zhou has no restrictions, after all, biologists also need academic results.
The genetically improved plants they researched were also very simple in Yang Zhou's opinion, not even level 4 or level 5 plants.
Now what research results, most of the scientists are sent to foreign journals, of course, there are domestic journals, but because scientists all over the world are looking at foreign journals, no one reads them in domestic journals.
Yang Zhou has not had time to deal with this aspect, and with his influence, he only needs to publish a few papers in domestic journals.
It is likely that foreign scientists will also find ways to subscribe to domestic journals and even learn Chinese.
Yang Zhou's current energy is all focused on transforming new plants.
Even talking to Tang Yue on the phone every day was ignored by Yang Zhou, and he stayed late in his laboratory at night.
In fact, this is all for people outside, Yang Zhou went to his mysterious space every time he entered the house and locked the door.
People outside don't have to worry about Yang Zhou's safety, everyone is used to Yang Zhou's experimental mode.
Yang Zhou likes to be alone, do his own research, and rarely ask others to help.
"The 1035th experiment! This time, try using a vine plant as the parent body. Yang Zhou said to himself.
There is no special meaning in choosing vines as the parent body, but Yang Zhou thought of metal vines and guessed whether it was a vine plant, which was more suitable for transforming into a metallic base plant.
Since metal vines can be successful, it may be more likely that he will be successful in transforming them with grapevines or other vines.
It is best to copy the metal vine, then it is powerful, Yang Zhou can perfectly fuse the fire gene into the metal vine.
Yang Zhou chose the kind of purple grape seeds that he likes to eat, which happened to be the fruit purchased in the laboratory today, and Yang Zhou ate the grapes and left a lot of seeds.
He brought the grape seeds into a mysterious space, using the system's built-in synthesis function.
Ignore the thirty-seven twenty-one for now, and put the messy genes extracted from the creation mushroom into the vine.
This situation usually fails synthesically, and Yang Zhou reported a glimmer of hope, hoping that there might be success.
The indiscriminate transformation proves that it is not possible, indicating that the optimization function of the system is useless, so Yang Zhou must really calm down, use the biological computer, carefully compare the genes, and slowly carry out the transformation.
There is also a set of processes to refine the vines, and Yang Zhou is the first to let the vines develop in the direction of super-enriched plants.
Based on the biological theory knowledge he has learned, Yang Zhou speculated that the successful research of metal grapevines should first change from ordinary plants to metal-absorbing enrichment plants, and then to super-enriched plants that absorb a large number of metals.
In this way, the fruits, leaves, and rhizomes of the vine should all have excessive metal content.
When the limit is reached, the gene may be mutated.
The metal element will mutate into the macromolecule of the basic gene to obtain an iron-base plant, so that Yang Zhou can be considered a successful transformation.
The spatial acceleration capacity is currently 128 times, and the ripening cycle for early varieties is 90-110 days.
The purple grapes purchased by Yang Zhou are actually grape varieties that have been modified many times by biologists.
The fruits that everyone eats now, such as tomatoes, started out as small tomatoes the size of their fingers, and then slowly turned into cherry tomatoes under the cultivation of human beings, and then continued to cultivate tomatoes to get bigger and bigger.
In addition, wild bananas are full of banana seeds, but the seeds are almost invisible in the flesh of the excellent banana varieties that have been cultivated today.
The same goes for grapes, which are very small and very sour.
The modified purple grapes are large and have a very sweet taste.
These fruit plants have been cultivated from generation to generation, which is fundamentally different from the cultivation route of Yang Zhou now.
Normal cultivation is usually to obtain seeds with larger fruits, cultivate the first generation, and start pollinating and hybridizing other grape varieties or other grape cores during the pollination stage.
In this way, the genes of the large fruit can be passed on to the next generation.
Yang Zhou's approach is more straightforward, first looking for genes that affect growth in a genetic simulator, and then using gene editing to put genes from other super-enriched plants into it.
Somewhat similar to genetically modified soybeans.
Genetically modified soybeans that can resist herbicides are made to fuse soybeans with herbicide-resistant grass genes.
The grass gene can be put into the soybean gene, and Yang Zhou wants to put the super-enriched plant gene into the vine, and it is no problem at all.
It's just that this kind of grape is completely inedible, and all of them are products of various metals exceeding the standard.
Yang Zhou took a lot of metal elements from the outside world to the mysterious space, and specially opened up a piece of land to cultivate heavy metal grapes.
He planted hundreds or thousands of grapes at a time, and within a day the grapes matured for the second generation of seeds.
After optimization, Yang Zhou can select the second generation of seeds.
In this way, Yang Zhou is a new generation day by day, and each time he selects the seeds with the most heavy metal content and cultivates them repeatedly.
In the fifteenth generation, Yang Zhou finally discovered that a grape vine not only contains metal in the grape, but also has a metallic luster on the vine!
"It's going to be done!" Yang Zhou was a little excited.
Quickly remove some cells and tissue, and go to the reality to analyze with modern instruments.
The latest batch of vines, the grapes that produce are very hard and already have a metallic feel.
After Yang Zhou checked the genes, he sighed, but still did not change the genetic attributes of the vine from the genetic level.
But whether it is iron or copper, all of them are seriously exceeded!
It is countless times more powerful than super-rich plants.
Because this itself is a product of super-enriched plant transgenesis, cultivated for many generations.
"Maybe now it's possible to fuse the genes of the igneous plants."
Yang Zhou thought of it, he first used the genes of the genes of the genes of the high-grade pyrophores obtained by decomposing the small revolver from the gene pool, and then decomposed the spores, and used the genetic modification ability of the mysterious space to forcibly integrate the genes of the pyrophores into the vines with excessive metal content.
These fused pyro-species genes are not simple, they can control the metal and have the ability to aim and jet.
If the fusion is really successful, Yang Zhou speculates that the vines are estimated to be able to grow upright without the need to use the power to climb the items!
Countless leaves will constantly spew out, lifting the vine in its entirety.
If the roots are in the pot, maybe the plant will fly.
The fifteenth generation of grapes is already a super-rich plant, which will absorb various metal elements, but there are no metals in the genes at the beginning.
Yang Zhou thought it would fail, but the system actually prompted that the synthesis was successful!
"Is it really done? No way! Yang Zhou himself felt incredulous.
Looking at the dozens of grape seeds in his hand, Yang Zhou did not hesitate to plant them in the soil rich in various metal elements.