Seawater rice is not rice that grows in the sea, and it doesn't have to be grown by the sea.

Seawater rice is a synonym for rice with saline-alkali tolerant characteristics.

Generally speaking, in areas with saline soils, alkaline-tolerant seawater rice will survive. It's just that inland saline lands usually change with climate and surroundings.

For example, changes in topography can turn low-lying land into highland, and droughts and floods can also change the salinity of a piece of soil.

Therefore, rice in saline-alkali land in inland areas cannot have stable saline-alkali tolerance genetics.

Therefore, if you want to find seawater rice with strong salinity tolerance and stable genetically, you have to go to the seaside.

Where the sea has always been, it will not suddenly disappear.

Chen Cheng took Deng Xing and an assistant in his twenties to Haizhou Province, where they used to collect wild seawater rice.

Haizhou Province is located in the southernmost part of the country of China, and the climate is hot, and even at the end of October, there should be wild seawater rice in the flowering period.

Three years ago, Zeng Lao and Deng Xing traveled to six provinces along the coast of China before they found seawater rice in some villages in Haizhou Province.

Other provinces are not absent, but according to genetic traceability, most of the seawater rice comes from these villages.

The seawater rice they were looking for was found in more than a dozen villages in Haizhou province. It is not only necessary to find good varieties of seawater rice that are in the flowering stage, but also to observe and compare whether their rhizomes are developed, and then select the target varieties.

It's a lot of work.

They climbed mountains and mountains under the scorching sun, picking from the muddy swamps overgrown with weeds, plant by plant.

Every wild seawater rice plant has to be inspected because it represents an opportunity. But more often than not, it's disappointment.

And then it's just a matter of repeating.

As for how hard it is, even the mobile phone signal comes and goes.

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Ugly Country, Sciense Editorial Office 1st Floor Lobby.

Freman stood on a small stage in the middle, with a few reviewers behind him, and a large circle of ugly reporters in front of him.

"Journalists, welcome everyone!"

Freman stood in front of the stage with a big round belly.

"Today, Sciense invites you to join us in witnessing a great discovery – plant mineral activators!"

After speaking, he raised the new edition of the Sciense journal in his hand, and in the middle of a line of large letters, it was written "Plant Mineral Auxin - A New Plant Auxin".

All the cameras turned towards the journal in his hand, and the camera flashed incessantly.

"Childe had sent me the manuscript of the paper twelve days earlier, and I had agreed with him to publish this issue of Sciense because there were still some experimental data that had not yet been perfected. Now, this great discovery can finally be made to the world!

Thanks to our great country, thanks to Child, a researcher at the National Biological Laboratory, who worked tirelessly to come up with a trace amount of plant mineral operating hormone in a plant that grows by the sea, so that this great discovery that attracted global attention was discovered and confirmed for the first time in the ugly country! ”

"Come here Child!" Freman beckoned to a man under forty on the side of the stage, who stood in front of the stage with some restraint.

"Coral has published more than 20 core papers in our journal Sciense, each of which has been groundbreaking in chemistry, biology, botany, and agricultural sciences. He is the most valuable scientist in our ugly country! ”

Now, he has discovered plant mineral activin for the first time in the world, which is his personal glory, but also the glory of the ugly country and the glory of the people of the world! Let's congratulate Child! ”

With that, Freman took Child and bowed together, ready to end the press conference.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Freman, I have a question for you!" A reporter stood up and shouted.

Freman paused, turned his head with a smile on his face, and said, "Please." ”

"As far as I know, seven days ago, a journal called Agricultural Science Journal published a paper on the discovery of plant mineral operanin in Huaxia, which was forwarded to relevant industry experts around the world. Is there anything wrong with this? ”

Freman was vain, he didn't have a heel in the reporter today, and it seems that the reporter really knew about it.

But then a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he said with a look of embarrassment: "I didn't want to mention this matter in the first place, because it might hurt a person who is far away on the other side of the ocean." But since you have asked it, it is necessary for me to make a name for myself. ”

He straightened his tie, made a serious expression, and said, "As the editor-in-chief of Sciense, I should speak up for academic justice." Here I make a reputation:

Seven days ago, a Chinese agricultural researcher named Chen Cheng submitted a paper to me saying that he had discovered plant mineral operants. But I was suspicious that Childe had submitted me a manuscript of the same content twelve days earlier.

I also sent them a request to see the detailed experimental data so that it could be verified by our reviewers. But the researcher in Huaxia refused to provide it and spoke ill of me.

I now announce that, judging by Sciense's reviewers, Childe is the world's first discoverer of plant mineral operants! ”

That's big news!

It involves not only the ownership of the world's first discovery, but also the reputation battle between scientists from two countries.

Even for the sake of tomorrow's newspaper circulation, news can be packaged as a struggle for scientific prowess between two countries.

When he finished speaking, all the reporters gathered around. They crossed the steps and rushed to Freman and Child, surrounding them.

"May I ask Mr. Freman, do you mean that the papers of the scientists in China are fake?"

Freman laughed: "I don't dare to comment on whether it is fraudulent or not, but he has refused to provide experimental data until now." ”

"Is there a case where two scientists discovered at the same time, but the scientists of Huaxia were the first to release it, so the world's first discovery should be made by Huaxia scientists?"

Freman said: "Judging from the time I received the paper, it was Childe who wrote the paper first and submitted it to Sciense, and the Chinese scientist named Chen Cheng has not provided detailed experimental data so far. ”

"You said that Mr. Chad provided experimental data, can it be published to prove that he is a world starter?" Journalists are unrelenting.

"I'm sorry, but this involves scientific research confidentiality. However, all of our reviewers have already reviewed it. ”

After speaking, he looked at the reviewers behind him, and those experts nodded.

Seeing that nothing can be taken out of Freman's mouth anymore.

Reporters threw the microphone in Child's face.

"May I ask Mr. Charde, from what plant did you extract this new auxin?"

Childe shook his head and said, "It's a secret. ”

"Will you make the content of your research public so that scientists from the Ugly Kingdom can study it in depth?"

Chard's hands were spread and he said helplessly: "Although I really want to do this, in order for the ugly country to stay ahead of this technology, it will not be announced until we have fully mastered this technology." Because of the importance of this technology, my computer was hacked not long ago. ”

The reporters seemed to have discovered an even more shocking inside story, and they crowded towards him. But Child, who could no longer keep his mouth shut, squeezed out of the crowd and left.