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Chapter 107 Sea Rice

The Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the outside world seem to be two different worlds.

The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences is located in Zhongguancun, Haidian District. There are tall buildings outside, but the buildings of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences are very low, and there is a 79-hectare experimental farm inside.

In Haidian District, the experimental farm covers 79 hectares, where one hectare equals square meters. It is simply too luxurious.

But there are very few staff inside, and only after Jiang Yan came, the number of staff increased. The old people here were confused as to why there were so many new faces.

After communicating with Jiang Yan last time, Dong Wenxu found that the seeds Jiang Yan picked out seemed a bit strange, and he began to become interested in the work.

Before, he worked based on orders and discipline, but now he works out of interest.

Later, the Institute of Agricultural Sciences transferred about a hundred people to their team. Dong Wenxu found that anyone who had some knowledge of agriculture and seeds had been transferred there.

The number of members in Jiang Yan's team is already greater than that of researchers in many institutes affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

With more people, a lot of work can be delegated, and many tasks that were originally put off can be brought forward.

Dong Wenxu was the first to arrive, so he became the contact person of this team, but of course he still had to work.

Today's work is aimed at understanding the specific modules of transgenic soybean during developmental stages, including regulators of hormone signaling pathways and transcription factors.

"You are responsible for the transcriptome analysis, and Lao Zhao, you will make a two-dimensional data set out of the materials they analyzed."

"Then we will conduct pairwise comparisons and build a dynamically expressed gene network platform to facilitate subsequent soybean seed gene analysis."

"At the same time, the co-expressed gene modules and hub gene modules of each module will also be determined recently."

Dong Wenxu and researchers said.

Research on soybeans has been ongoing. In 2010, foreign countries completed the sequencing of the whole genome of the Willimas82 soybean model.

Foreign seed giants are much ahead of China in terms of genetically modified seeds.

The team led by Jiang Yan has the idea of ​​overtaking others through special abilities.

They don't need to sequence each one individually, and use genome-scale technologies such as microarrays and cDNA sequencing, which have been used to isolate genes and reveal regulatory networks.

They did not need these genomic approaches to identify and manipulate key genetic bottlenecks limiting soybean seed number and size.

They only need to find the genetic mutation fragment in the seeds screened by Jiang Yan and find out what excellent traits this fragment has brought.

Then they use technical means to combine all the excellent traits into one seed, and this seed is the seed they finally cultivate.

It took Monsanto five to ten years and hundreds of researchers to develop it, but Jiang Yan, with about a hundred people, simultaneously conducted seed research on dozens of crops and developed it in half a year.

Jiang Yan was deeply impressed by the improvement in seed cultivation efficiency brought by the magic brain.

If he had had this technology back then, he would have been able to develop better quality hybrid rice long ago.

During this period, Jiang Yan has been mainly working on improving hybrid rice, and has already cultivated hybrid rice and sea rice of higher quality that better meet market needs.

In fact, the advantages of hybrid rice have been declining in recent years, from nearly 80% of the planting area in the past to 50% in recent years.

特别这两年是一直在降的，19年种植面积138万亩比18年降低了18%，20年种植面积是115万亩，又降低了17%。

Conventional rice has been improving over the years, but hybrid rice is not as good as conventional rice, and hybrid rice is not improving fast enough. In terms of economic benefits, conventional rice is even slightly better, because conventional rice has a lower yield but sells at a higher price.

Therefore, Jiang Yan further optimized the most commonly grown hybrid rice on the market in terms of taste, yield, and fertilizer absorption rate.

The cultivated sea rice also fully meets the requirements. Both of these methods also involve a large number of gene mutations, screening of excellent varieties, and then hybridization of excellent traits to produce the best seeds.

"We can send someone to get the relevant research materials and seeds, and prepare for promotion."

At China Seed Group Co., Ltd., they received seeds sent by the Ministry of Agriculture, which they said were the latest research results of the Agricultural Science Institute.

"This is something that the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has just developed. It can produce 600 kilograms of sea rice per mu in saline-alkali soil with a salt content of 3 percent."

"I hope you can verify it and prepare for large-scale promotion!" The person in charge of delivering the seeds said he was from the Ministry of Agriculture, but his actual identity was from the Administration of Anomalous Matters.

Chen Jingrui, the deputy general manager of the Seed Group, opened his eyes wide: "Three percent? Are you sure you are right? Isn't it three thousandths?"

The other party answered with certainty: "Yes, it is 3 percent."

"Six hundred kilograms per mu?"

Chen Jingrui majored in agriculture and had worked in the fields many years ago. He also knew about sea rice. After repeated confirmation, he picked up the seeds and thought, "Who put up this satellite?"

"Isn't this a trick to deceive the Ministry?"

"If this was so great, it should have been on the news this morning."

Previously, China's best sea rice could only maintain high yields per mu in saline-alkali land with a salt content of 0.6%.

Because the saline-alkali land in China is low, such as the Northeast, the salt content is about 16 parts per thousand, while the high places, such as Guangdong and the sea, the salt content is even parts per thousand to parts per thousand.

Therefore, although the sea rice that was developed previously was widely reported by the media as a breakthrough, in reality it is still far from being able to be promoted on a large scale.

There is a gap between the meticulous farming of researchers in an experimental environment and large-scale sowing in reality, not to mention that the experimental environment only supports a salt content of 0.6%.

Chen Jingrui was skeptical about the seeds sent by the ministry. What does 3% mean? All saline-alkali lands in the country can be promoted on a large scale, without any regional differences.

Many places abroad will rush to buy the seeds of this sea rice if the yield is really 600 kilograms per mu and the salt content is 3%.

The role of sea rice is not only to increase output, but more importantly to improve the soil environment. Many abandoned old industrial areas in Europe and the United States can be alleviated through large-scale planting of this saline-alkali land.

At the same time, many ecologically fragile saline-alkali lands can be improved to grow more economically profitable crops.

Chen Jingrui sent it to the laboratory of China Seed Group and asked them to conduct experiments in a simulated saline-alkali land environment to ripen the fruits. He wanted to get the answer as soon as possible.

If it is true, the economic benefits it contains are huge, and it can completely enable China Seed Company to take its performance to a higher level this year.

Now after the reform of state-owned enterprises, many things are linked to performance, and central enterprises are no exception.

Everyone has to find work to do and something to profit from. Without profit, there is nothing.

Of course, for a state-owned enterprise like China Seed Company, which is positioned as a public welfare enterprise, the requirements are lower than those for commercial state-owned enterprises.

The lower requirements here refer to the state's lower profit assessment requirements for them. For example, the profit requirement for public welfare state-owned enterprises is 1 million yuan, or even no profit, while the profit requirement for commercial state-owned enterprises is 10 billion yuan.

(End of this chapter)