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Chapter 112 You have technology and I have magic (Please subscribe!)
China's soybean strategy not only successfully exported to Argentina, but also made a lot of money in the futures trading market.

Later, the futures team of China Seed Company repeated this operation on sea rice and also made considerable profits in the futures market.

At the same time, whether it is super soybeans or highly adaptable sea rice, they can be exported overseas in large quantities and will also be popularized domestically at the same time.

The middle and lower levels of the financial market may not understand for a while why the originally weak Chinese seed industry suddenly made a series of breakthroughs and developed seeds that are much better than Monsanto's R&D team.

The domestic breeding industry has always been far behind that of foreign countries. Monsanto alone has a scientific research team of more than 106 people and R&D centers worldwide.

As for the domestic R&D team, at the end of 2019, there were ten A-share listed companies mainly engaged in seed industry, including Longping High-Tech and Yuanyuan High-Tech, with a total of 1048 R&D personnel.

(Data from the combined issue of China Economic Weekly, 2021rd and 3th issues, 4)
There is a huge gap between the two countries.

Some people may say that the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences is more responsible for this task, but according to the official website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs:
From 2012 to 2017, China invested a total of 32.8 billion yuan in agricultural technology over the five years.

Monsanto's investment in 2017 was 16 billion euros, which is more than China's total agricultural technology investment in the past five years.

You should know that not all of China's investment in agricultural science and technology is invested in the seed industry. Only a small amount can flow into the seed industry.

"I need to know the Chinese's technological route. Have they made any fundamental changes in their technological route?" Monsanto's president Grant was very angry. Super soybeans would make it impossible for them to sell their genetically modified soybean seeds within three years.

Because the price set by China Seed Group is very low, the export price is not high, and the domestic price in China is even lower.

The price of super soybean seeds is almost the same as Monsanto's best genetically modified soybean seeds.

Three years is just a conservative estimate because they want to develop super soybeans, and three years is the most optimistic estimate within Monsanto.

"We invest far more than China every year, so why were super soybeans and sea rice developed by China first?"

"I can understand seawater rice, because the Chinese have a foundation for seawater rice and they started developing this technology a long time ago, but how do you explain super soybeans?"

"We have purchased Chinese super soybeans at our R&D center in Argentina, and the planting effect is very obvious. I now need to explain why the Chinese are suddenly so far ahead of us?"

"In fact, seawater rice is also intolerable. You swore at the time that the seawater rice route had no potential. It was great in theory, but it couldn't be implemented in reality. Why did the Chinese people's seawater rice land?"

The more important significance of sea rice lies in improving the ecological environment of saline-alkali land, which is particularly important today when environmental protection is so advocated.

Forelli had anticipated Grant's accusations.

Because when the news about China's super soybeans came out, Grant sent him many emails in a row the next morning.

After super soybeans were approved in Argentina, Forelli had expected this day to come.

He is Monsanto's chief technology officer. He has been in this position for more than ten years and has seen many ups and downs. He comforted:
"No one could have imagined that the Chinese would be in this situation today. I have already inquired about it. Although Syngenta now belongs to China Seed Group, super soybeans and sea rice have nothing to do with Syngenta."

"No one from Syngenta participated in China's projects, probably because they don't trust them." Syngenta is a Swiss seed giant. After it was acquired by China Chemical Import & Export Group, when China Seed Group was spun off, Syngenta was also allocated to China Seed Group.

Forelli mentioned Syngenta first, indicating that although we did not succeed, Syngenta did not succeed either, so it was not my fault.

He went on to say, "This matter is strange from beginning to end. As soon as we got the genetically modified soybean seeds from China, we sequenced their genes in the laboratory using an amperometric gene sensor."

The current-type gene sensor is a technology that was invented not long ago. It sequences genes through PNA probes fixed on carbon nanotube-printed electrodes.

"There are many genetically modified sites in China's super soybeans, many of which have never appeared in our database. We currently don't understand how these sites work, nor do we know what the underlying logic of the Chinese technology is."

"You know, our previous research was all about how a single gene fragment works in soybean seeds. From China's super soybeans, I vaguely feel that super soybeans are the result of the combined effect of multiple genes."

"If it's really as I thought, this technology is a generation behind the technology we have now. It's impossible to explain why there are seed companies on the blue planet whose technology is one or even several generations ahead of Monsanto!"

Furelli is very confident in Monsanto. He is well-versed in industry trends and cutting-edge technologies. "It is impossible for China's seed industry to be so developed."

"And what's also strange is that China's previous sea rice technology route was clearly hybridization, and Yuan adopted the third-generation hybrid rice breeding technology."

"But the sea rice we got was produced using genetically modified technology, and many of its gene fragments have been edited."

"It's not that our technical department didn't anticipate this. I'm sure that seed companies around the world didn't anticipate this. The Chinese technology is very suspicious."

"Not only Monsanto has the technology to edit genes in complex, but other seed companies also don't have it. I doubt that China has figured out how some genes work in complex, or even the underlying logic."

"Either they have obtained alien technology, or the Chinese technology cannot be explained."

Grant asked: "If we obtain the technological realization principle of China, how long will it take you to develop super soybeans or even more super crops?"

Furelli: “One year at most.”

Grant: "Okay, get ready. I will personally visit China to discuss cooperation. If cooperation doesn't work, we have other options."

Unfortunately, his trip was unsuccessful. Even if Monsanto used industrial espionage, it could not get what it wanted.

The Chinese people's breakthrough in the seed industry was based on the Magic Brain, but no one in the China Seed Group knew of the existence of the Magic Brain.

Not to mention that even if Meng Shan knew the existence of the magic brain, they wouldn't be able to get it.

It is already September of the 22nd year. China and Russia have each obtained three magic coins, while America has obtained four, temporarily leading the other two countries.

As for the Neon, England and Australia alliances, they received two, and the Europa League received three magic coins.

In fact, the listing of genetically modified seeds requires patent registration, toxicology testing and a series of other tests. Considering the novel, I will not write about these one by one. The timeline jumps directly to nine months. You can assume that China Seed Group has completed all these things in these nine months. To be honest, I don’t know how long this process will take.
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