The Technology Tree of Xueba

Chapter 411 Grafting Plan

When Tao Shengwen heard that Zhou Yu said there was a solution, he stood up happily and hurriedly asked: Mr. Zhou, your thinking is flexible, what is your solution?

Zhou Yu didn't speak, and pointed to the apple on Tao Shengwen's desk.

Tao Shengwen glanced at the apple on the desk, he shook his head and said: This method doesn't work, we also experimented with fruit transplantation of life cell organelles on Ceres.

Its protein structure has not changed, and it still produces toxic polypeptides in mammals.

Besides, fruit contains not enough starch to provide sufficient energy for normal human activities.

Even with certain genetic modifications, their growth cycle is relatively long.

This leads to insufficient fruit production, and their positioning can only be fruit, and it is impossible to replace the role of staple food and vegetables.

Seeing that Tao Shengwen still didn't think of the solution he was going to propose, Zhou Yu reminded again: Director Tao, do you know all the apple trees in the world, and what technology are they produced?

I really haven't paid attention to this. Isn't the apple tree grown from apple seeds? Tao Shengwen guessed.

As a scientist who studies cells, he doesn't care about agricultural technology at all, so he doesn't know the production technology of apple trees.

All the apple trees in the world, it is produced by grafting technology, if you look at grafting technology, you will know what I mean.

The grafting scheme is the only scheme that I can think of that can play the role of Ceres organelles and avoid its risks. Zhou Yu directly pointed out the method he thought of.

Tao Shengwen began to understand grafting technology, which is an agricultural technology applied to fruit trees.

Many excellent fruit varieties in the world are produced through grafting technology.

It uses the particularity of the plant to graft peach branches to pear trunks to produce a new variety of peaches.

The wider application of grafting technology is to ensure the survival rate of fruit seedlings.

The survival rate of native fruit trees is very low, and a wild relative of apple has a very lush root system, so it is easy to grow successfully.

But its fruit is only the size of a cherry, and it is very sour and difficult to swallow.

Agricultural technicians graft the high-yield and delicious apple trunks to the roots of wild apples.

The apple tree produced in this way is very easy to survive and can bear huge and delicious apples.

Tao Shengwen learned about the grafting technology, he pondered for a while, then raised his head and said: The grafting technology can indeed solve the problem of fruit-like space plants.

We put the Ceres life organelles in the roots, the grafting technology hinders their cell communication, and the fruit it bears does not have the Ceres life organelles at all.

The genetic material of various fruits is exactly the same as the genetic material of similar fruits on the earth, so we don't need to carry out special publicity, and the public can fully accept that it is not a genetically modified plant at all.

Some herbaceous plants with hard branches can also be grafted in this way. Such as tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, corn, sorghum.

These are annual herbaceous plants that complete the life cycle after bearing fruit.

But they are too expensive and cumbersome to do so.

Director Tao, you are also in a mindset now, how do you know that these plants will still be annuals.

Most herbaceous plants are annuals, which is mainly determined by its living environment.

For example, bamboo is a special kind of herbaceous plant. There are many bamboos that are more than 10 years old in nature.

There are living organelles on Ceres that provide sufficient energy for these herbal plants. According to common sense, their survival time should be longer.

Even space plants can only be annual plants, which can provide staple food and vegetables in the universe.

It also costs far less than transporting it from Earth to a space base. Cost is not a factor limiting grafting options. Zhou Yu expressed his point of view.

Tao Shengwen can't think of other methods now, he also thinks that grafting is feasible to a certain extent, and there is no harm in trying.

Then let's try it, and I'll let the scientists arrange the experiment.

Tao Shengwen regained his capable demeanor, he got up and walked out of the office, and called the scientists to start the experiment.

Grafting technology is a very old technology, which is now very mature.

The scientists performed grafting experiments using genetically modified plants with high metabolism.

The plant has a short growth cycle, growing from seedling to maturity in just a few days.

However, their nutrients and taste are very poor, and they can only be used for experimental verification and cannot be planted on a large scale.

Using corn and tomatoes as experimental materials, scientists began to study whether the grafting scheme could take advantage of the advantages of space plants and at the same time avoid the disadvantages of space plants.

Tao Shengwen led the scientists to start experiments. The scientists were not familiar with the grafting technology of space plants, and the plants died soon after grafting.

They continue to sum up experience, adjust the grafting technology, and find a grafting method suitable for space plants.

Zhou Yu accepted Tao Shengwen's invitation to come to the cell laboratory to watch a new type of space plant.

Seeing Zhou Yu's arrival, Tao Shengwen said flatteringly, Mr. Zhou is really insightful. He pointed us in the right direction at that time. Now the space plant project is a great success.

Tell me about the space plant. Zhou Yu said happily when he heard that the space plant project was successful.

Tao Shengwen led Zhou Yu to the planting area of ​​space plants.

What came into view was the huge corn forest, and these corns looked a little special.

The corn stalks are bare, not a single leaf exists.

The stalk of corn is thicker than other corns, and this stalk is also divided into two distinctly colored sections.

The corn stalks occupying the lower fifth are brown-red in color, and the upper four-fifths of the corn stalks are cyan corn stalks, which are the same color as normal corn stalks on the earth.

The corn bears huge cobs that are nearly three times the size of normal corn.

Tao Shengwen happily introduced: These are space plant staple food corn, the genetic material of corn is exactly the same as that of earth corn, and the nutritional structure is also exactly the same as that of earth corn.

The reason why it grows so big is that the corn root can provide it with sufficient energy, so that the cells can grow larger and the metabolic cycle is longer.

This phenomenon is the same as the reason why the growth of plants in fertile land is good and the growth of plants in barren land is poor.

Zhou Yu and Tao Shengwen walked through the corn grove, and saw tomatoes the size of a volleyball, long purple eggplants that were about the size of a human arm, and pepper seedlings that were as tall as a human.

Tao Shengwen said excitedly: Space plants have been a great success now, and they don't need sunlight to survive.

During the nursery stage of space plants, we carry out space plant cultivation, and when they grow to a certain extent, space plants are grafted.

Now that we have developed an automatic grafting robot, the seedling output of space plants is very sufficient.

Space plants only need to be watered with methane aqueous solution, and they can survive in the space environment.

After Zhou Yu visited the space plant, he gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: The space plant project is definitely an epoch-making project. You have opened a new era of space development, and your name will definitely go down in history.

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