Upon hearing that "the key support directions of the association have been finally determined", most of the participants at the meeting were refreshed and their waists straightened.

As a large-scale national seed industry association, the Xiaguo Crop Seed Industry Development Association has huge influence and potential energy. Once the key support directions are determined, it will not only provide a large amount of interest-free loans as scientific research funds, but also promote publicity.

We will provide preferential treatment and preferential treatment in terms of resources, daily affairs, and policies.

In particular, under the Seed Industry Association there are "Rice Seed Industry Association", "Fruit and Vegetable Seed Industry Association", "Cotton Seed Industry Association", "Corn Seed Industry Association", "Mechanized Intelligent Seed Industry Association", "Fertilizer and Chemical Seed Industry Association"

Association" and other sub-associations, each sub-association must focus on different fields. Everyone hopes that their own field will receive key support, and related seed industry companies and scientific research institutions have the same thoughts.

However, there are too many people and too little food. The Seed Industry Association generally does not focus on more than five support directions each year. In addition to the usual visits and surveys by the association's top executives, such year-end academic seminars are also very important as a basis for judgment. A jury has also been set up for this purpose.

In such academic seminars, scientific research experts in the seed industry must use their outstanding research results and academic explanations to convince the judges of the jury to vote for them, in order to receive key support for their scientific research projects.

Therefore, when Qi Ping, the president of the Seed Industry Association, announced the start of academic exchanges, the professors, scholars, and heads of research laboratories who had originally secured the spot to give lectures came on stage to give speeches.

The academic seminar only lasts for one day, and each person can take as little as ten minutes or as long as thirty minutes. There are only twenty registration places in one day.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun didn't understand the details until they got the meeting procedures before attending the meeting. As newcomers to the seed industry, they were given thirty minutes to speak, which was really rare.

Qin Ke thought that Secretary-General Huo Guanting vaguely mentioned Uncle Yang's secretary Lu Xinping when he was chatting with him, and he understood in his heart that this was probably the result of Secretary Lu's secret concern, and behind it was naturally Uncle Yang's preference and concern.

At this time, the first person to give a speech was Professor Yao Dusen from Xiaguo Agricultural University. His other identity is the person in charge of an agricultural mechanization and intelligent research laboratory. The speech was 20 minutes long and the theme was "Plant Protection Without Risks".

"Research and Development of Human-Machines", that is, the implementation of precise pesticide and fertilization through specially developed drones.

Professor Yao's research has achieved some results. The newly launched "Huifei Zhinong WAENA1 single-rotor plant protection UAV" can achieve linkage between flight speed and spraying volume to ensure uniform spraying of chemicals throughout the process, and the radar system it carries is also very efficient.

It is advanced and can detect and avoid obstacles in all directions and all weather. It is highly intelligent.

His report won bursts of warm applause, and the judges on the judges' bench also nodded repeatedly. Then there was a short communication session. If there were any questions, he would ask them. If there were no questions, he would move on to the next report.

Professor Yao's results were outstanding and his explanations were very clear. Only two scholars asked some small questions, and no one asked any more questions.

Qin Ke leaned close to Ning Qingyun's crystal little ears and laughed softly: "Professor Yao's research is indeed good. I didn't expect that domestic drones have developed to this extent. They are much better than I imagined."

Ning Qingyun also felt that it was an eye-opener and the trip was worthwhile: "Yes, you really have to come to such an academic conference to know how far the domestic seed industry science and technology has developed."

Next, scholars with different time limits came on stage to give reports. Qin Ke noticed that many of the top ten domestic seed companies had sent their own laboratory directors to appear to win key support for next year.

Some of the reports of these seed industry companies were relatively plain, while others were obviously exaggerated. With Qin Ke's level of understanding of plant hybrid breeding at this time, it was obvious at a glance which parts of the reports were bragging.

For example, Professor Yan Fulong who was standing on the podium giving a report was particularly exaggerated.

He is the person in charge of the plant breeding laboratory of Maoqing Seed Industry Group, and the theme of the report is "Results and Prospects of Research and Development of Healthy and Green New Selenium-rich Corn Varieties".

"The 'Maoxing 3566' new high-quality selenium-rich corn variety recently bred in our laboratory has a protein content that is about 25% higher than that of ordinary varieties, a selenium content that is 55.3% higher than that of ordinary varieties, and it is also rich in anthocyanins.

The most important thing is that the substance can increase the yield by 21%. For the specific data, you can see the PPT. It mainly involves several DNA-level breeding enhancements and scientific crop rotation plans. You can see these charts..."

As the PPT page switched, most of the company CEOs in the audience subconsciously let out exclamations of exclamation.

The professional and technical knowledge of these bosses may not be very high, but in terms of numbers alone, this new high-quality selenium-rich corn variety "Maoxing 3566" has huge market potential.

Yan Fulong was very proud. This report was produced by integrating the results of most of the technical staff in the laboratory. It can be said to be the biggest achievement this year.

Moreover, in order to make the report more eye-catching, he quietly made some tricky changes in a very small number of data.

Generally, experimental data is based on the average of most experiments, but Yan Fulong took the best data and stuffed it into the report, making the data in the report very beautiful and greatly exceeding the average.

Of course, this is not considered fraud. It can only be said that it is not honest enough and conceals something. It is one of the default unspoken rules in the industry.

Those who are capable of such tricks are usually minor characters with little reputation. Once the status of the head of a laboratory of a large seed industry group like Yan Fulong is exposed, it will still be very embarrassing, and there is no need to count on key support next year.

Already.

But Yan Fulong is not worried that someone will expose it, because no one will hold on to these details and data. After all, he is not publishing a paper, but just making an academic report, and it is only as short as a PPT. Who has such ability to see it?

? To take a step back, if there are really people who want to investigate, and there are real experimental data to prove it, I can at most add that this is a new type of variety, and the experimental data is relatively small, so it can still be fooled.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yan Fulong uses this method every year, and even gives research reports to senior executives of group companies. He also uses this method, and it has never been discovered by anyone.

He often received bonuses for this, and he took it for granted and even felt complacent about his "flexibility".

At this time, hearing the applause from the audience, Yan Fulong was filled with relief, and his slightly provocative eyes couldn't help but fall on Qin Ke.

But seeing the corners of Qin Ke's mouth raised, as if he was laughing, Yan Fulong's face suddenly darkened.

In fact, Qin Ke, the famous god of mathematics, whom he has been secretly following, is an opponent he is extremely afraid of and hostile to.

Yan Fulong was jealous and resentful of Qin Ke. He received news that his group company, in order to obtain Qin Ke's latest research results, actually wanted to pay a high price to poach Wei Xueming from Qin Ke's research institute.

Wei Xueming is just an unknown person, while Qin Ke and his girlfriend Ning Qingyun are newcomers to the biological world. They have some bad luck. They first published a paper in the core journal "Acta Biologica Sinica" and also developed a

Five new types of tomato seeds have also gained popularity in the market, making them an upstart in the industry.

This makes Professor Yan Fulong, who has been working in the industry for more than 30 years but has never successfully published a paper in "Journal of Xia Guobiology" and has never enjoyed such a reputation and honor, so embarrassed!

What made him most fearful and uneasy was that he heard that the senior management of the group had even considered hiring Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun as special technical consultants.

Although the matter ended up being settled, it still sounded the alarm for Yan Fulong. If the company really poached Qin Ke in the future, it would undoubtedly threaten Yan Fulong's authority and status as the leader of the laboratory.

At this time, he saw Qin Ke secretly laughing while listening to his report. How could he not make Yan Fulong furious?

He is extremely conceited about his research results. No matter how good Qin Ke is, he has only made some achievements in tomato breeding. Whether he can understand his new corn report is a question. Now he dares to laugh. How can he bear it?

Yan Fulong interrupted his report, stared at Qin Ke, and asked coldly: "I wonder why Mr. Qin Ke is laughing?"

Except for Ning Qingyun, almost no one around noticed that Qin Ke was smiling. After hearing this, they all looked at Qin Ke in surprise.

Qin Ke shrugged his shoulders and continued to smile: "It's nothing, I just have a slightly different view on some of Professor Yan's experimental theories and data. Please continue. If I feel it is necessary, I will ask questions later in the question session."

Yan Fulong felt dazzled when he saw his smile. He simply did not believe that Qin Ke could find any problems with his report because it was all real data. He snorted: "Since Mr. Qin has questions, he can raise them now. There is no need to

Waiting for the question and answer session.”

Qin Ke shook his head: "The meeting has its own process. There is no need to disrupt the process because of me. I also asked Professor Yan to continue giving a report."

Yan Fulong saw that he repeatedly refused, which further confirmed his suspicion that Qin Ke didn't know how to pretend to understand.

He deliberately wanted to wait for Qin Ke to ask some wrong questions, and then ridicule Qin Ke severely, making him lose face.

The guests must be outstanding, so feel free to put forward your opinions and we can discuss and discuss them on the spot."

Seeing Yan Fulong advancing step by step, the others who were jealous of Qin Ke or wanted to test the young man's true talents all nodded.

"Mr. Qin Ke, why don't you discuss it with Professor Yan? You can also show us your insights."

"That's right, Mr. Qin Ke, there is no need to be humble and give in. Professor Yan is the speaker. If he agrees, there is no need to wait for the question period."

Qin Ke had no good impressions of Maoqing Seed Industry Group, which wanted to obtain its research results in improper ways, and was even more dissatisfied with the exaggeration in Yan Fulong's report. Now that it was all said and done, Qin Ke was not polite.

He stood up directly and said: "In that case, I will just ask two small questions."

Yan Fulong sneered and said, "You can just mention it."

Qin Ke asked calmly: "On page 19 of the PPT, Professor Yan mentioned that this new type of corn seed is made from an interspecific hybridization of wild corn (teosinte) and your company's corn. Although there is no

Let’s talk about the details, but the data chart mentions the hybridization-induced DNA methylation variation sites mOp1-3, mAp2-6, and the 24-nt small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) site. I guess it should be after three backcrosses.

And four times of self-fertilization. Right?"

Yan Fulong was shocked. These technical details were all key technical points and secret data. Of course, he could not tell them in the report. As for the data charts, he pieced them together from the reports of his subordinate researchers. He only wanted to play the PPT for a short time.

, and did not mark the details and key points. I only posted it to enhance the persuasiveness. Unexpectedly, Qin Ke could guess from this clue that it had gone through three backcrosses and four self-crosses!

Even if you know this, you still can’t know the key to the technology, but it’s still incredible!

Qin Ke ignored his drastic change in expression and said: "As we all know, siRNA induces asymmetric cytosine methylation of DNA through the RdDM pathway, thereby converting it into stable methylation and inheriting it. This is the key principle to achieve cross-generational inheritance.

, but after three backcrosses and four self-crosses, the probability of a paramutated gene a9 appearing in the chart on page 20 is very, very low, only one in a thousand, and it is uncontrollable and cannot be inherited in the next generation."

Having said this, Qin Ke stared at Yan Fulong: "I'm very surprised. Professor Yan, the protein content and selenium content data you finally got are only possible in this one-thousandth special case. Could it be that there are hundreds of people in your experimental field?"

All experimental strains have this one-thousandth probability of mutation occurring at the same time?"

The audience immediately started whispering to each other.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Most of the people present are experts, and Qin Ke’s meaning is very clear. Yan Fulong’s final so-called "Maoxing 3566" new high-quality selenium-rich corn variety is amazing.

The data is only possible in one thousandth of a thousand special cases, and it is not heritable, that is, large-scale seed production cannot be carried out, so the value of research and promotion is very small.

Yan Fulong was suddenly startled and broke into a cold sweat.

At that time, he found the best experimental data and posted it, purely to attract attention and win the key support of the association in the next year. If the actual results were significantly different from the laboratory data, he could also use "experimental data"

The difference between the environment and the actual production environment, the intergenerational difference in the large-scale seed production process, etc.

Unexpectedly, Qin Ke could know the probability of these almost secret paramutation genes a9, and also knew that it was uncontrollable and non-heritable!

This is a conclusion reached by dozens of elite scientific researchers in the laboratory after thousands of experiments, speculations, and repeated discussions. At least Yan Fulong himself would not have known it if he had not seen the report submitted below.

Where did Qin Ke know this? Did the laboratory leak the secret?

Yan Fulong regretted that he had nothing to do to provoke Qin Ke, but he still insisted: "Nonsense, where did you learn about this mutated gene a9? What is the basis for it?"

This time the question comes to a key point. If Qin Ke just talks nonsense and can't produce evidence, he can fight back.

He couldn't believe that Qin Ke's laboratory happened to be doing such an experiment and got the same results!

But Qin Ke smiled and said: "I derived it from mathematics. Do you want to know? If you don't mind me taking up about five minutes, I can use the existing data on your PPT to deduce it."

Chairman Qi looked at the agenda. Originally, Yan Fulong's report was scheduled for twenty minutes, but now it has only been about twelve minutes. If it is confirmed that there is something wrong with his report, there is no need to continue.

President Qi nodded: "Okay."
Chapter completed!