Chapter 230 Germplasm Resource Bank
On the endless grassland, the gentle outline of the grassy mountains is rolling, and the golden grass curls like waves.
Occasionally there is a tall scaffolding, with a goshawk standing proudly on the scaffolding.
There are also photos of goshawks swooping down on mice in the grass, as well as pictures of mouse-catching teams in action.
New life is sprouting in the moist soil after the ice and snow melt.
What is it like here?
Guo Yang recalled that it was probably a stretch of Gobi Desert, a stretch of rocky mountains, and a stretch of grassland.
Thinking about the faster accumulation of natural energy, the contribution of controlling degraded grasslands must be indispensable.
Guo Yang commented: "The grassland restored by artificial grass planting has really good results."
Mongolia Province, in a yurt on the Urad Grassland.
Bao Xinyu, who was in his thirties, smiled knowingly.
Falcon agriculture has never had a significant presence in Jiahe’s sector. In addition to being related to the boss’s free-range attitude, it is also because the process of managing degraded grasslands is too long.
Last year, the group spent tens of millions to help Mongolia Province control rodent infestations, and obtained the right to rent-free operation of these 600,000 acres of grassland for 20 years.
Then the boss promoted him to be the person in charge.
Good guy, I was so happy when he was promoted.
But after arriving, I realized that this place was not much different from a barren land. It was full of degraded grassland, exposed rocks, and even desert.
Fortunately, alfalfa started out as pasture, and there is no shortage of high-quality grass seeds.
Wolf grass, king grass, and white sand mugwort, these are the three high-quality grass species provided by the group company.
Wolf grass can inhibit the growth of poisonous weeds, while king grass and white sand wormwood are extremely adapted to the climate of desertified areas.
The three work together to form a powerful tool for controlling degraded grasslands.
Mixed with some other grass species, a complete grassland plant system is formed.
Bao Xinyu said in the group: "It's a pity that there are too few grass species of ice wolfgrass, king grass and white sandgrass. The other grassland without these three grass species will not grow well." . ”
Guo Yang: “@xieshijie, how is the progress of grass seed expansion?”
Xie Shijie: “Grass seeds can be collected in July.”
Bao Xinyu. : "The relationship is so good that we can replant it in autumn."
Qu Yang: "Old Bao, come on, I'll be counting on you for horse riding, archery, falconry and hunting from now on."
"Hey, we have to rely on Mr. Qu and Mr. Xie to do more business and make more profits."
"They are all serving the boss."
Guo Yang saw this and typed: "The on-the-job bonus plan has come out, but I think it needs to be changed. You have set the goal too high. Okay, change it again.”
Set the height?
When they saw Guo Yang say this, everyone was stunned for a while.
Is there any boss who thinks the business goals are set too high? Doesn't the higher you get, the more money you make for your boss?
The group became quiet for a while.
Guo Yang: "The tone does not need to be too high. In addition, the goals and dividend plans are not detailed enough, and there are far from enough positions at the grassroots level."
"For example, if a city or county has a sales office, only With four or five employees, one employee is responsible for dozens of towns and villages, then this sales office should have overall goals and dividend plans, such as selling 1.3 million pepper seeds and making a profit of 500,000..."
“We must consider it all.”
“The purpose of the on-the-job bonus plan is to feed back part of the profits earned by the company to employees to make up for the anger employees have suffered at work.”
Qu Yang, Yan Qun, Yu Honghai, the management team members of Tianhe and Fengkai, etc., all felt their eyes brightened when they saw this place, and felt enlightened after thinking about it carefully.
The service industry is bound to suffer.
Seed production, seed sales, technical services, agricultural machinery after-sales services, etc. all inevitably require long-term communication with farmers.
Trying to figure out the psychology of farmers and explain the features of products will inevitably make you angry. It is common for new college students to cry when they are angry.
Jiahe places special emphasis on service quality and user consumption experience.
The staff was even more angry.
High wages and good treatment can relieve anger.
The operating target of the on-the-job bonus plan is lowered, and it covers more grassroots positions
The employees' psychological endurance will skyrocket, and their loyalty and recognition will soar.
In turn, it will improve service quality and gain recognition from more farmers and consumers.
This is a virtuous circle.
Great!
The only ones who suffer are the shareholders of the company, which is equivalent to dividing the profits of shareholders with some employees.
It's hard to imagine that the boss would make such a decision.
For these senior executives, although the boss treats them well, there is no movement of employee stock ownership.
And with the on-the-job bonus plan, they are even more worried.
Because there is no soil for holding shares.
“Boss, great atmosphere!”
"The train runs fast because of the boss. I admire every wise decision made by the boss."
Guo Yang: "Don't let the rainbow fart come, hurry up and implement it."< br>
"The on-the-job dividend plans of Shahai, Qinghe and Falcon are also going to be done. Let's report them first."
Everyone agreed.
We were all shocked in our hearts.
Guo Yang continued to read some other group messages, and then went to the cafeteria to have a meal.
The wind and sand are still blowing, and we have to delay going to the countryside for a day or two. There is no need to suffer this.
Just like a coin has two sides, Jiuquan’s spring also has two sides.
On a windy and sandy day, the sky in Jiuquan is yellow and gray; on a clear day, the sky in Jiuquan is so blue that you doubt its existence.
Have a rest in the office for a while.
Thinking that the high-quality gene screening at the seed store had not yet yielded results, Guo Yang contacted Bi Qiang and went to select a batch of germplasm resources in the afternoon.
“A species affects a country’s economy, and a gene is related to the prosperity of a country.”
The importance of germplasm resources can be seen in general.
The genes used by Mr. Yuan to cultivate hybrid rice came from wild rice, but the fate of wild rice is worrying.
Take Yunnan as an example. It is known as the animal kingdom, plant kingdom, world garden, and species gene bank.
In the 1980s, there were still 26 places with wild rice populations, but now 24 have disappeared.
The Wujiang rice collected by Bi Qiang is also in the same situation.
Soybeans are a painful lesson.
To date, the average domestic soybean output is only 70% of the world average, and 50%-60% of that of countries such as the United States and Argentina.
All this is due to the massive loss of my country’s biological germplasm resources overseas.
Jiahe's germplasm resource bank is affiliated to Tianhe Seed Industry Academy Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tianhe Seed Industry.
It covers an area of about 25 acres and has a preservation building and a comprehensive building for the germplasm resource bank, as well as supporting auxiliary buildings, greenhouses, germplasm gardens, greenhouses, etc.
The total project investment is nearly 50 million yuan.
Construction started in 2003 and it took two years before it was put into use last year. It is considered the top germplasm resource bank in the entire northwest region.
And this is built by enterprises and is not a public welfare investment by the state.
When Guo Yang saw Bi Qiang, he was waiting outside the depository in a white coat.
Bi Qiang asked with a smile: "What kind of seeds do you want? There are many types at present, including grains, grasses, fruit trees, and special plants."
Guo Yang thought for a while, " I want 10 of the seeds that have been screened and identified." In the cold storage of the germplasm resource bank, seeds are placed quietly in glass jars, lying dormant.
Theoretically, it can be preserved for thousands of years.
The extinction of seeds does not mean physical disappearance, but the loss of their ability to evolve, which is the consequence of seeds losing their diversity.
For this reason, the germplasm resource bank is also called the boat of life, preventing seeds from becoming extinct due to natural disasters and germplasm degradation.
Improving existing crop varieties may even break through species restrictions and interspecific hybridization bottlenecks, creating new traits or new crop varieties...
Scientists even imagine that these seeds may still be used in the future. Being able to go to space and create a new world on a suitable planet.
Actually, Guo Yang is mainly cultivating corn, wheat and rice seeds this time, but the seed store has species restrictions and interspecific hybridization bottlenecks.
Therefore, he needs to have records for every high-quality gene.
Currently, the breeding research and development team led by Bi Qiang is also doing this work, but it is definitely not as fast as him.
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In Tianhe’s seed resource bank, there are seeds introduced from major universities in the early stage to replenish the inventory, as well as seeds collected by Bi Qiang and the collection team later.
The collected seeds have to go through multiple processes before they can be put into storage.
In the seed cleaning room, Guo Yang saw scientific researchers pouring seeds into the separator. The full seeds fell down and the empty seeds were blown to the other side.
At the same time, X-ray photos will be taken randomly to see at a glance whether the seeds are empty or full.
The healthy seeds left behind after sorting continue to be cleaned, quality inspected, counted, etc.
Following this is a series of procedures before it can be stored in the database.
Bi Qiang found two military coats.
He put one on himself and gave one to Guo Yang.
Opening the cold storage door, the cold air hit my face.
Glass bottles are neatly placed on the shelves. The barcodes on the bottles indicate the storage location and germplasm information of the seeds.
Bi Qiang turned back to look at Guo Yang, spitting out white mist.
“Generally, 10,000 seeds need to be collected and saved for each plant, at least 2 to 500 seeds.”
"These are the seeds that have been stored in the warehouse. They are divided into two parts and are stored in the backup library and the active library. The former is kept permanently and the latter is used for germination tests."
"There are also some screened and identified seeds that are stored in the other. A room with room temperature, not yet stored in storage."
Bi Qiang carefully took out the seeds while introducing the situation to Guo Yang.
“Don’t spend a lot of money to buy seeds in the future.”
“Many of the seeds you introduced from colleges and universities before are duplicates.”
"Out of 1,000 germplasm resources, after duplication checking and comparison, only 175 could be temporarily preserved."
Guo Yang was stunned.
No wonder all the major colleges and universities at that time were desperately trying to seed Tianhe.
Bi Qiang continued: "It's okay, the university also has a germplasm resource bank, and the high-quality genetic crops screened out must not have been released."
"Waiting for the identification of existing resources to be completed. , can share resources. ”
Germplasm resources are important strategic resources and the basis for the breeding of new varieties.
Units with germplasm resource banks can carry out breeding through techniques such as hybridization, seed breeding, radiation mutagenesis, and mining of advantageous functional genes.
Resource sharing comprehensively improves their respective breeding capabilities.
Guo Yang is looking forward to that day.
With a seed store, it only takes him a few seconds to dig out the advantageous genes of a seed.
First, I took the seeds from the cold storage, but they couldn't be taken out immediately. It took a while to adapt from low temperature to normal temperature.
I went to the room temperature warehouse again to get the seeds.
Guo Yang and Bi Qiang then discussed Tianhe’s breeding system while waiting for the seeds to recover from dormancy.
Because Guo Yang has always regarded Tianhe Academy of Sciences and the laboratory as a cover for breeding, he has not paid much attention to it.
As a result, the system is in place and there is no shortage of money, but it has always been riddled with holes.
Bi Qiang has only taken over for two or three months.
I want to start from the germplasm resource bank, build a precise identification base of germplasm resources, and further conduct molecular identification on the basis of phenotypic trait identification.
Then conduct in-depth mining of functional genes.
In particular, Jiahe has been keen on the cold-resistant, drought-resistant, salt-tolerant and other special genes,
and then carry out breeding and transformation on this basis to cultivate high-quality and high-added value, adaptable New crop varieties with outstanding commercial value that are easy to produce and suitable for mechanization.
After making commercial contributions, we will further develop key core technologies for breeding such as the utilization of hybrid vigor, efficient and precise multi-gene editing, compound mutagenesis, breeding chips and genotyping, and whole-genome selection.
Finally, Jiahe’s modern biological breeding system was constructed.
Bi Qiang said with a smile: "This is a long-term career, and it is worth completing in ten, twenty, or even a lifetime."
Guo Yang listened to Bi Strong planning, clear logic and ideas.
But if you really want to complete it, it is just like the process of collecting seeds, which is full of risks. You may be injured by poisonous branches at any time, which will make people heartbroken.
Bi Qiang's eyes were firm and full of fighting spirit.
Guo Yang is also sincerely happy that he has found a new goal. It is always safer to stay in the laboratory.
Seed collectors have their footprints all over the place.
From the Gobi desert to the tropical rainforest, from the roof of the world to the Sanjiang Plain...
There are many pioneers who have lost their lives for this.
Therefore, Guo Yang and Bi Qiang also proposed improving the talent team system and ensuring incentive mechanisms.
Whether the company transfers or develops excellent seeds cultivated by itself, the breeding team can receive one-time or lifetime rewards.
In the evening, Guo Yang took the seeds and was about to go back. He hugged Bi Qiang's shoulders.
"Maybe it won't take a lifetime, or even twenty years. As long as you are here, Jiahe's investment in breeding research and development will only be more, not less."
Guo Yang looked back again, "Maybe In a few years, Jiahe’s R&D investment will reach or even exceed that of multinational seed companies.”
Bi Qiang smiled and said, "Then you will have to make a lot of money."
The R&D expenses of large multinational seed companies generally account for more than 10% of revenue. For example, Pioneer Company's R&D expenses in 2005 were Ten billion yuan level.
"Just watch my performance."
Guo Yang laughed and walked out.
Now that Tianhe is rich, it is necessary to comprehensively improve its breeding capabilities.
Firstly, seed stores have natural energy needs, and secondly, after the consumption restrictions on high-grade seeds are lifted, they naturally focus on cultivating high-grade germplasm.
Leave the grassroots seeds to Bi Qiang.
The wind and sand are still blowing.
When Guo Yang returned to the office, it was already past the time to get off work, but Qu Yang was still waiting for him.
“Boss, Tianyu No. 1 will not be able to enjoy the subsequent subsidy for improved seeds from Liao Province.”
"Northern Anhui and Ji Province are also experiencing this trend."
"Zhengdan 958 has also been affected by price restrictions."
Guo Yang looked at him in surprise, "Local protection Power?"
Qu Yang nodded with a heavy expression.
Guo Yang laughed.
"It's true that someone gives you a pillow when you feel sleepy. It's just the right time!"
(End of this chapter)