Having said that, Chen Cheng understood why Wu Bin would come to him.

"So Minister Wu means that you want me to use technology to solve this possible crisis?"

Wu Bin nodded.

"With spring soybeans just a few months away, we'd like you to develop a technology to increase soybean yields. Although it certainly cannot completely replace China's soybean imports, as long as we can improve our ability to respond to sudden changes in the soybean market next year, it will be considered a very successful success. ”

Chen Cheng thought for a while and said: "I have started to study soybean rhizobia technology in the past two days, but there is a problem at present that there are no soybean plants in the planting stage for me to carry out technical tests. ”

Wu Bin smiled: "This is a trivial matter! You don't know, our Ministry of Agricultural Development just established a research institute last year, called the Institute of Crop Cultivation for All Climate. ”

"All-climate cultivation?" Chen Cheng was surprised.

"Yes." Wu Bin showed a look like a treasure, and said: "Our all-climate cultivation concept refers to the simulation of various climates around the world through heating and refrigeration technology in the experimental center of the institute, and the environmental conditions for crop cultivation in different climates are available. ”

"So in your institute, crops can be cultivated in any season?" Chen Cheng said.

Wu Bin nodded and said: "The temperature and soil temperature can be arbitrarily regulated, and not only that, but we have also cultivated different crops at different growth stages. ”

That's perverted.

A gleam flashed in Chen Cheng's eyes.

In an instant, the laboratory building that just cut the ribbon was not fragrant.

You must know that similar to Zeng Lao's constant temperature experimental field, it can only ensure that the temperature of the entire experimental field is controlled at a suitable temperature for rice.

And this all-climate means that they are able to control not only the temperature, but also the soil temperature. That is, to simulate the growing environment of crops in different climates in an all-round way.

In short, any crop, they institute can grow at any time.

Looking at Chen Cheng's envious gaze, Wu Bin continued: "The soybean you mentioned, our experimental center just has three plants with different growth stages, which are in the process of being cultivated. ”

Chen Cheng swallowed.

It's a scaled-down version of a super farming system!

"How? Interested in visiting our Total Climate Crops Institute? ”

Wu Bin sent him an invitation.

Chen Cheng nodded naturally.

With such a good research resource, he naturally wants to take a good look.

"Does our Ministry of Agricultural Development have any requirements for the soybean technology I want to study? For example, how much to increase production? Chen Cheng asked.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Wu Bin waved his hand and said, "Not really." Of course, the higher, the better. ”

Chen Cheng thought for a moment and said: "I don't think it's just about increasing production, but about figuring out what the purpose of this wave of soybean market operations by foreign grain merchants is."

If they just want to operate our internal soybean market in China, why don't they start exposing their plans so early on, not around the time of spring soybean sowing?

It's a bit unlike their style. ”

Wu Bin also nodded.

"You can rest assured in this regard, the Ministry of Commerce will naturally give us an answer soon. All you need to do is be prepared for emergencies. ”

"Good!" Chen Cheng said vigorously.

After hearing Chen Cheng's affirmative reply, Wu Bin showed a relaxed smile.

He stood up and prepared to visit the campus of Agricultural University.

After all, the big leader has a lot of things to do, and it is impossible to spend too much time chatting with Chen Cheng here.

The subsequent visit was naturally Zhao Feng's business, and Chen Cheng returned to the laboratory after leaving contact information with the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Research on soybean rhizobia is in the research stage, and now the situation is urgent, so he has to speed up the research progress.

First of all, we will get the improvement of soybean rhizobia.

After previous research, his initial plan is to improve rhizobia to be able to coexist on soybean stems and branches, so as to increase the content of rhizobia in soybean plants, thereby improving the nitrogen uptake capacity of soybean and achieving planting economy.

Just do it.

Chen Cheng called up the system and directly began to simulate the implantation of rhizobia into the branches and stems of soybeans.

After the supercomputer set up the simulation state, rhizobia were implanted from the soybean seedlings.

Chen Cheng was excited and stared at the virtual 3D image in front of him.

After more than 30 seconds of simulation, the system sounded an alarm.

【Simulation Failure】

Chen Cheng didn't ask why, because he saw with his own eyes that the soybean seedling, after growing to the branching stage, suddenly broke off from the rhizome part of the soil.

The life of soybean should go through the process of seed germination, seedling emergence, seedling growth, branching, flowering, pod-setting, drumming, and maturity, which can be divided into 6 growth periods. The growing season varies greatly depending on the variety, ranging from 60 to 100 days.

The branching stage is only considered that the soybean plant has just reached adulthood, and has not yet reached the flowering and fruiting stage.

died so early, Chen Cheng did not expect.

After a brief review of the simulated plants, Chen Cheng discovered the reason.

The reason is not complicated. After the implantation of rhizobia in the soybean stem and other parts, the reproduction and development of rhizobia was also successfully realized, and nodules of different sizes were successfully grown in the stem part of the soybean plant.

Chen Cheng clicked on the data and found that the nitrogen fixation capacity of soybean plants has increased by more than 70%, and the effect is obvious.

But the shortcomings are also obvious, rhizobia affects the bearing capacity of the soybean plant, after the soybean plant matures, the weight on it is too large, plus there are wind and rain and other forces, it will break.

Chen Cheng tried a few soybean varieties with thick stems, and although the resistance to fracture has increased, they have all fallen into the process of pod-setting, bulging and ripening.

As the weight of the plant increases, so does the probability of breakage.

Not to mention that if the production is increased by tens of percent, it is estimated that the risk of production being cut off due to wind and rain will be even greater.

Chen Cheng frowned and gave up trying in this direction.

Ruling out this line of thought, Chen Cheng's idea returned to the rhizome of soybeans.

"Can we make the rhizomes of soybeans more developed, so that the symbiotic area of rhizobia will also increase?"

Chen Cheng thought wildly.

It's not exactly 'messy', it's called 'brainstorming' in literary terms.

Explore feasibility from all sides.

Chen Cheng didn't think about improving the soybean stem to make it grow thicker, because the obviously vertical stem was thicker and consumed more energy.

This is not conducive to nutrient accumulation in the later fruits.

A well-developed root system can not only provide more areas for rhizobia symbiosis, but also provide more nutrients for plants.

One in and one out, the difference between the two is huge.

So Chen Cheng decided that the next direction was to improve soybean rhizomes.