Chapter 582 Shennong Heavenly Group!
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Yang Kaiqu,
Hou Guangjiong,
Guan Xianghuan,
Zhou Kaida,
Yuan Guoliang.
After hearing these names coming out of Zheng Yi's mouth.
Xu Yun's mind suddenly went blank, and his whole person went into a shutdown on the spot.
At this moment.
There was only one thought floating in his mind:
Otherwise
Shall we kneel again?
This tmd is really a big guy - not just one or two.
Needless to say, Yuan Guoliang understands everyone in the true sense.
In the future life where Xu Yun traveled through time.
Yuan Guoliang is undoubtedly the first person to create hybrid rice, and his contribution cannot be erased by some sunspot’s rhythmic articles.
For example, some people like to say that the earliest proposers of hybrid rice theory were Neon and Haidong. The title of Yuan Guoliang, the father of hybrid rice, is an exaggeration.
But in reality?
The hybrid rice proposed across the sea can only be regarded as a concept and has not been implemented at all.
As for the proposer of hybrid rice cultivated by Neon, his name is Katsuo Kiyoshi.
Not to mention that the samples he used were actually domestic red awn wild rice, let’s just talk about the entire cultivation process:
The Tengban No. 5 he bred only improved the stability of the female parent, but the final effect was not satisfactory, so he gave up after three years.
Yuan Guoliang was the first person to breed male sterile line products, and he used completely different varieties.
This is like a science fiction novel in the 1980s that proposed the synthesis of starch with carbon dioxide, but rabbits were the first to do it. Who do you think has greater credit?
Guan Xianghuan is a well-known agricultural expert in China. He received his doctorate in California in the 1940s and studied abroad in Neon and Haidong.
After returning home.
He successively served as a professor at West China University, the Agricultural College of Sichuan University, and Jinling University. During the war, he was responsible for rice cultivation in the Rabbit base area.
Ten years ago, he was transferred to Southwest Agricultural College, one of the predecessors of Southwest University, and taught Yuan Guoliang, a Chinese shennong.
The earliest batch of "Theory of Evolution" and "Crop Cultivation" in China were also translated by Guan Xianghuan, who was a big boss who was really deeply involved in grassroots work.
Hou Guangjiong is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at Southern Agricultural University. He was elected as a member of the Huaxia Academy six years ago—that is, an academician for later generations.
At the same time, Hou Guangjiong, like Guan Xianghuan, was one of Yuan Guoliang's mentors at Southwest Agricultural College, but he focused more on soil.
It's like if you study particle physics.
The basic subjects are quantum field theory and introduction to particle physics and nuclear physics, but group theory is also a required course.
Hou Guangjiong, Guan Xianghuan → Yuan Guoliang → Li Bihu, Luo Xiaohe.
This is the inheritance relationship of Yuan Guoliang's line.
In later generations, Southwest University.
Hou Guangjiong, Yuan Guoliang and the poet Wu Mi are collectively known as the three male gods in the history of Southwest China.
This is probably one of the few uses of the word male god that will not offend passers-by
What’s also interesting is that these three students all entered Southwest University through Gate 7.
Except for the three big guys in Yuan Guoliang's department.
Yang Kaiqu and Zhou Kaida on the side are also a pair of legendary teachers and students in the agricultural field.
Among them, Yang Kaiqu, like Mr. Hou Guangjiong, is currently a big boss at the academic committee level, standing at the highest level of academic circles in the Republic.
He is now the dean of Sichuan Agricultural College, later Sichuan Agricultural University. Later generations of officials defined him as the founder of the field of regenerated rice in my country.
To know.
Later generations such as Wang Lao and Qian Bingqiong were just like this. "Young people" like Zhou Shaoping and others are just defined as "road pioneers".
The famous rice experts Sun Xiaohui, Fu Danru, Li Hanyun, Tian Yanhua, Huang Guoshou, Li Renduan, Li Jiaxiu, etc. were all students of Mr. Yang.
Immediately afterwards.
Xu Yun set his sights on the last person again.
That is.
Zhou Kaida is still young.
There are many scholars in modern China who have worked hard to build the country but remain unknown, such as Yu Min, whom Xu Yun met before.
Compared with Yu, Zhou Kaida is obviously more in line with the definition of "obscure".
Mentioned earlier.
Yuan Guoliang was the first person to create hybrid rice in later generations. This sense of national identity cannot be eliminated by some people's slander.
But on the other hand.
Yuan Guoliang's contribution mainly lies in the indica rice, and the actual planting area is not large in 2023 - this is actually easy to understand.
Give an example.
When your family is poor, there is nothing to eat. If you eat one meal, you will be hungry twice.
The result is one day.
Dad brought several boxes of instant noodles home.
This thing has no nutrition, and it tastes like pickled cabbage chicken noodles. But the problem is that it is very hungry.
Your family relied on this box of noodles to get through the most difficult period. Later, when they got rich, they still had several boxes of this stuff at home.
But at that time, you had already eaten a lot of fish and meat, so it was naturally impossible to eat such weird-tasting instant noodles.
So you had to put it in the storage room.
First of all, I just wanted to keep this in mind. I would hate to lose this kind of thing.
Secondly, if you become poor for some reason in the future, you can still use this thing to satisfy your hunger.
This is the case with Yuan Guoliang’s indica rice.
Then here comes the problem.
Can you say that because now you eat a lot of food and fish, you have forgotten the contribution of instant noodles?
This is also obviously inappropriate.
Of course.
The original contribution of instant noodles cannot be ignored, and we should certainly be grateful for the delicious food and meat now.
So who is the person who ‘created’ big fish and big meat?
There are many contributors to this part, such as Mr. Xie Huaan, and Zhou Kaida in front of Xu Yun.
The "photosensitive sterile line ecological breeding method and technology" he created has solved the problem of two-line hybrid rice breeding in Sichuan Province and the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
The Gang and D-type hybrid rice he cultivated were promoted to 304.8 million acres, increasing rice production by 22.858 billion kilograms and creating social and economic benefits of 32 billion yuan.
Zhou Kaida has won 23 achievement awards at the provincial level or above in his life and is known as the "Father of Southwest Hybrid Rice".
But it's a pity.
The name Zhou Kaida is somewhat similar to Lao Su.
Almost everyone is familiar with it in the field of rice, but after the introduction of rice.
【Who is this person】?
True.
It is estimated that these seniors do not care about these famous names.
But for later generations of beneficiaries like Xu Yun, respecting and spreading the deeds of Mr. Zhou and others is an obligation that should be fulfilled.
Of course.
In addition to the strong surprise at this time.
What Xu Yun is more curious about is
Why do these big guys appear in Base 221?
Could it be that he came here for the food of the bear?
That’s not right either.
These five big guys are all engaged in rice research, while Mao Xiong's research is on winter wheat, which should have nothing to do with them.
And just when Xu Yun was confused in his heart.
Qian Bingqiong took a few steps forward, walked to Yang Kaiqu, and asked with concern:
"Lao Yang, why are you here? Aren't you recuperating in Chengdu?"
Hearing what Qian Bingqiong said, Xu Yun also remembered something:
Yang Kaiqu was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in May this year, and he should be receiving treatment in Chengdu now - that's why he is in a wheelchair.
At the same time, follow the historical trajectory.
Yang Kaiqu would die six months later. Before his death, he personally drafted the lesson plan "On Staged Measures for Rice Cultivation - Discussing the Relationship between Cultivation Measures, Physiological Changes and External Environmental Conditions According to the Growth Period."
Although throughout his two lifetimes, Xu Yun has never had the experience of cancer.
But according to his understanding of cancer, Yang Kaiqu should be in the most tortured stage at this time.
If Hou Guangjiong and Yuan Guoliang were able to come to the base just because they were attending a seminar in Baise.
So it was really unreasonable for Yang Kaiqu, who was supposed to be recuperating in Chengdu, to appear here.
Unless
There is a certain reason why Yang Kaiqu can endure the torture of illness and come to the base desperately in the last period of his life - wait, this is not right, why is it a base?
Logically speaking, even if there is something urgent, shouldn’t we go to the capital?
And just when Xu Yun was confused in every possible way.
Hou Guangjiong, who was beside Yang Kaiqu, spoke. He patted Yang Kaiqu's wheelchair and said:
"Bingqiong, it's hard for Lao Yang to speak out now. Let me introduce the specific situation."
"Before today, Xianghuan, Xiaoyuan and Xiaozhou were attending a crop seminar held in six southwest provinces in Baise area."
"As a result, on the day after the meeting, one of Xianghuan's classmates, Comrade Lin Yuanguang from the Baise Crop Research Institute, found him and showed him a special wild rice sample."
"According to Xianghuan's analysis, we found that this is a special male sterile wild rice!"
Hear the three words [male sterile wild rice].
The expressions of Li Jue, Qian Bingqiong and others did not change much.
But Xu Yun on the side felt a thump in his heart, and he almost fell off the wheelchair again.
I, T, M, D, heard, heard, what, what? ? ? ?
Male sterile wild rice?
As a biology student who studied "Heredity and Evolution" in high school biology and is now a biology major.
How could Xu Yun not know what this word meant?
The concept of modern hybrid crops was proposed in the mid-to-late 19th century, and its technical application probably appeared at the beginning of the last century.
At that time, George Harrison Schaal across the sea took advantage of hybrid vigor in corn breeding and developed hybrid corn, which increased the yield by more than 30%.
So.
He then proposed another idea:
Can we use hybrid technology on rice to breed hybrid rice to increase production?
But the idea failed until the death of George Harrison Schaal because it was impossible to find a vector that could maintain the hybrid genes.
Those who were rice students in their previous lives should all know this.
Rice is a self-pollinating plant, hermaphroditic, with small flower spikes and only one seed per flower.
So what about hybrid rice.
Simply put, they are the mules of the plant world.
In the animal kingdom, donkeys and horses cross to produce offspring, mules, but the mules are sterile.
To get mules, you have to keep crossing donkeys with horses.
The same goes for hybrid rice.
The first-generation hybrid rice genes obtained through hard crosses cannot be passed on to future generations.
If we want to rely on artificial emasculation and hybridization to produce a large number of hybrid seeds like corn, how many seeds can be produced every day?
A small amount of testing is okay, but it is impossible to use it in field production.
Because of this, hybrid vigor in rice has not been applied for a long time and has remained theoretical.
Unless
There is a special sterile line:
Its male pollen is degraded, that is, the male flower has no pollen and must rely on external pollen to reproduce.
After having CMS.
Planting it alternately with normal varieties and performing artificial assisted pollination can solve the problem of mass production of first-generation hybrid seeds without artificial emasculation.
But the problem is that this logic is easy to understand, but male sterile rice is really difficult to find.
According to historical development.
Yuan Guoliang's team will wait a full 9 years.
Only by chance did he discover the first male sterile wild rice, which is also the famous [Yebei].
Later major domestic hybrid rice species such as Shanyou 63, Weiyou 64, and Gangyou 22 are all descendants of this wild strain.
Of course.
Speaking of wild defeat, we have to mention another thing:
In later generations, many black men used Ye Bei to attack Yuan Guoliang, on the grounds that it was not Yuan Guoliang who discovered Ye Bei, but his student Li Bihu.
This tmd is outrageous.
first.
At that time, Yuan Guoliang went to Yanjing for a meeting and was not in Sanya, so the search task was entrusted to Li Bihu.
That is to say, if Yuan Guoliang had not held the meeting, Yuan Guoliang would definitely be involved in this matter.
Secondly.
Let’s take a step back.
Even if Yuan Guoliang was not present when he discovered it, would this contribution not be considered his?
What does the word team in a scientific research team mean?
When Eric Cornell later completed the Bose-Einstein condensate, the magneto-optical trap was independently designed by his students. Do you think he did not deserve the Nobel Prize?
And Roentgen's X-rays.
This thing was discovered through his wife's palm and ring.
There are so many big guys in history.
There are only three examples of people who were able to win the Nobel Prize by relying on their own strength without any outsider involvement:
Planck established quantum theory, Schrödinger created the theory of wave mechanics, and Einstein explained the photoelectric effect.
According to those logics, the remaining more than 100 winners must burn their Nobel medals and return them to Nobel.
It’s outrageous that this can become a black spot.
alright.
His eyes returned to reality.
Hear Hou Guangjiong’s explanation.
Qian Bingqiong's breathing was slightly faster:
"Professor Hou, can I understand it this way? According to your explanation"
"With this male sterile strain, can our hybrid rice be put on the agenda?"
"That's right."
Hou Guangjiong nodded slightly, pointed at Guan Xianghuan and others and explained:
"So when Xianghuan and the others realized this, they immediately contacted Comrade Wang Ensheng who was performing the mission and wanted to know more information."
"But unfortunately, I was told that this is a special mission with a relatively high level of confidentiality, and non-related personnel cannot have too deep access."
"So he immediately contacted me and Lao Yang, and it was only through the two members of our academic department that we got in touch with the director."
"The chief expressed great importance to this matter, but the strange thing is that he did not ask us to go to the capital, but arranged for us to come to the 221 Base"
Hearing Hou Guangjiong's words.
Lao Guo, Li Jue and Qian Bingqiong were slightly startled.
Then he also set his sights on
Xu Yun.
It's obvious.
Although the specific reason is not clear.
But the organization's dispatch of these five experts to the base must have something to do with the base's special adviser.
And based on some current situations.
The capital seems to have some information about Xu Yun that is unknown to the base leadership.
Of course.
At this time, Xu Yun's eyes were focused on Yuan Guoliang and Zhou Kaida, so he did not notice the small movements of the three of them.
Then Lao Guo was silent for a moment and asked Hou Guangjiong:
"Professor Hou, I have a question."
"If we have those sterile strains, how long will it take to breed hybrid rice?"
"By the way, I mean the ideal time when everything goes well."
“Ideal time”
Hou Guangjiong thought for a while and slowly gave an answer:
"It will take at least a few years, maybe four or five years if everything goes well? After all, the traits need to be stable for multiple generations."
"If there is any accident during this period, this time will be further extended, but at least seven or eight years should be enough."
"After all, what we found this time was not just one male sterile strain - according to the location given by Professor Chen Shutong, we found a small community of nine strains in total."
"So Director Guo, I can't give you the specific minimum time, that is, the lower limit, but the latest upper limit is still certain."
When Lao Guo heard this, he touched his chin with a thoughtful expression:
"Seven or eight years?"
Seven or eight years.
This time is not very long for a crop breeding.
In other words, in the slowest case, as long as the country persists for seven to eight years, it is likely to have a hybrid rice with excellent yield?
Suddenly.
Lao Guo thought of the second plan given by Xu Yun:
Coke for winter wheat.
This kind of business that is controlled by others must not be done for a long time. After all, it is equivalent to giving away the remote control of the vibrating egg to others for free.
Therefore, this business has limited its lifespan from the beginning. It will definitely not be very long, but it will not be very short either.
After all, although the domestic bears are short of food now, what they are actually lacking is feed grain - the meat sales and production of the bears are very high.
For example, starting this year.
Mao Xiong’s total milk production and per capita consumption rank first in the world.
Wait until 1985.
The annual milk production of Mao Xiong exceeds 100 million tons.
Compared with feed grains.
Mao Xiong only supplies the staple food for human consumption. That is, winter wheat, and the yield is still very high.
Of course.
It will be different later on. What is discussed here is the current situation.
That is to say
The original trading period of Coca-Cola for Grain can actually make up for the breeding period of hybrid rice?
Think of this.
A thought came to Lao Guo's mind:
This Han Li
Could it really be a divine donkey sent from heaven?
After all, it was according to his plan.
As long as the rabbits trade with the bears for a few years to transition, they may be able to produce their own food on their own!
certainly.
The premise of the above is
The drink Coke is really as magical as Xu Yun said.
Note:
Several authors have made an appointment for an offline massage in September in Chengdu. An idea suddenly came to me. I would like to take a bus from Fujian to Chengdu. It seems to be very interesting.
I'll study the route then, and if it's feasible, I might actually give it a try. (End of chapter)