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Chapter 113 Super Black Technology: Targeted Breeding! (Seeking Subscription)

"Make things difficult for you?"

Chen Jue saw a hint of disdain for online seed purchases from this big-nosed old farmer.

As a [Breeding Expert], the big-nosed old farmer nodded and began to explain: "Yes, boss, your seeds are of too low quality. To breed top-tier [Prosperity] + [Supreme] attributes, it will take a lot of time to iterate."

"The best way is to crossbreed and select from [Vigorous] + [Excellent] parent plants. This will greatly shorten the number of iterations and time."

After listening to the big-nosed old farmer, Chen Jue showed a thoughtful expression.

Although he wasn't an agronomy major, he did well in high school biology and knew the advantages of crossbreeding.

Take Yuan Lao's hybrid rice, which he dedicated his life to, for example. In the early days, he accidentally discovered 'natural male sterile plants' in the paddy fields of early indica rice in Dongting, which were the so-called 'natural hybrid rice.' This led to the cultivation and research of hybrid rice.

Including animals in nature, animals usually choose strong opposite sexes to combine with in order to breed healthier offspring that are more adapted to the environment.

Take dogs as an example. Expensive purebred dogs are far less resilient and adaptable than the local dogs in rural areas that have been crossbred for countless generations.

In other words, to obtain excellent next-generation crops, the parent plants should ideally have high-quality, complete genes.

However, the batch of seeds Chen Jue bought online had enough variety, covering almost thousands of different economic crops, from vegetables, fruits, fungi, flowers, staple foods, and so on.

However, since he placed the order randomly online, Chen Jue couldn't use the MC system's appraisal subtitles to check the quality of these seeds and living organisms in advance.

As a result, most of the seeds that were delivered with free shipping had mediocre [Healthy] + [Ordinary] attribute qualities.

It was obviously wishful thinking to try to cultivate excellent hybrid offspring that break the limit based on such parental foundations.

Even if Chen Jue had a ripening artifact like [Bone Meal], it would probably take a lot of time to rely on blind luck to have a chance to cultivate top-quality [Prosperity] + [Supreme] crops.

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After listening to the old farmer's explanation, Chen Jue temporarily gave up the idea of quickly cultivating top-quality crop varieties.

As the saying goes: Haste makes waste.

Without sufficient conditions, even an MC villager like a [Breeding Expert] couldn't conjure up top-quality seeds for Chen Jue out of thin air.

"Besides buying seeds from the MC with emeralds."

"Then all that's left is to spend a lot of time slowly conquering it."

Although Chen Jue wasn't good at scientific research, he knew that it would take a lot of time to truly cultivate excellent and high-yielding crops.

In addition, under the current conditions, to obtain better parent plants, he would have to start with those agricultural research institutes and agricultural universities in China.

Because the best seeds in China, apart from those commercial seed companies, are basically concentrated in these scientific research units.

"I remember some time ago, Japanese commercial spies ran to our country to bribe insiders, trying to steal the parent plants of our hybrid rice. As a result, they were caught red-handed."

"Now there is a rice shortage in Japan, and it is estimated that they are also envious of China's hybrid rice technology."

"Buying alone should not be able to buy the experimental parent plants of scientific research units. I wonder if the path of sponsorship can work." Chen Jue stroked his chin and took out his notebook to record the two prerequisites for obtaining top-quality varieties.

When he came back to his senses, he found that the old farmer, the [Breeding Expert], had already taken the batch of seeds Chen Jue bought online and started demonstrating how to breed them in the experimental field.

According to the big-nosed old farmer, many of the crops on Earth that Chen Jue bought online were unfamiliar to him.

He needed to rotate them one by one to understand their habits and characteristics before proceeding to the next step of breeding.

"This setting is very similar to Lao Shang!"

"Can you quickly absorb the knowledge in books?" Chen Jue continued to ask.

Seeing the old farmer nod, "Yes, boss!" He then synthesized all the agronomy books he bought online into [Bookshelves] and gave them to the other party for rapid absorption.

After completing this step, the old farmer, who had a preliminary understanding of plants and crops on Earth, continued: "Boss! It is always superficial to obtain knowledge from books. I still need to plant it myself to understand it more deeply."

When Chen Jue saw that the big-nosed old farmer was more concerned about farming than he was, he freed up the underground base for the other party to perform.

He took out his own enchanted [Iron Pickaxe] and opened up a large MC farmland with a whoosh, and then sowed the seeds.

Whether it was vegetables, fruits, or flowers, he gently poured [Bone Meal] on them, his movements were very skilled, and even had a hint of elegance different from the brute force of the iron golems!

When these sown seeds emitted green light and the results skipped the first stage of growth, the big-nosed old farmer put away the [Bone Meal] and began to switch out the [Brush] to sweep the paired crops.

According to the other party's description, if you want to carry out breeding, it is not possible to skip all the growth stages by relying on [Bone Meal]. That will only be affected by the rules of MC farmland and get offspring that are highly similar to the parent seeds.

It doesn't help much in improving the attributes of the seeds.

It is necessary to cultivate carefully in the second stage of plant growth, which is the step of flowering and fruiting.

For example: watering and fertilizing, pruning branches, removing insects and weeds, artificial pollination, targeted cultivation, and other basic operations. The big-nosed old farmer patted his chest and said that these were his good jobs.

"What is targeted breeding?" Chen Jue asked curiously.

Chen Jue had an impression of other farming techniques and felt that they were very basic farm work.

Only the last 'targeted breeding' was unheard of.

So the big-nosed old farmer reached out and picked a soybean that had been ripened halfway, and then patiently explained: "Targeted breeding is to cultivate a plant variety in the direction of the desired characteristics."

"Your human agricultural experts have tried to make rice adapt to saline-alkali land, which is very similar to the targeted cultivation I have mastered."

"Take the soybean in my hand as an example. If you want it to produce [Drought Resistance] characteristics in a normal soil environment, you need to gradually reduce and drain the water in the soil until its offspring are completely adapted to the arid growing environment, and producing the same yield and quality of soybeans is considered a successful targeted cultivation."

"WTF??? Can you still play like this?"

When Chen Jue heard this heaven-defying technology, he immediately said with some trembling: "If you drain the water in the soil to a desert state, can you also target and cultivate similar soybeans?"

The big-nosed old farmer gave Chen Jue a mysterious smile: "Boss, planting soybeans in the desert is theoretically possible for us [Breeding Experts]."

"But I just came to the boss's world, and I don't know much about the water, soil, light, and climate environment here. If you want to cultivate the desert soybeans you mentioned, you need to conduct a lot of desert field experiments, and you also need high-quality parent plants and a lot of [Bone Meal] for matching assistance."

As soon as he heard that 'desert soybeans' had a certain chance of being realized, Chen Jue's face showed ecstasy!

This Nima is indeed an agricultural breeding technology produced by the MC system, which is simply black technology to the apex!

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