Half a year after the release of Magi, not only China's Internet giants established research teams on astronomy and mathematics, but America's giants also took the same action.

Financial giants like Goldman Sachs and Morgan mine mining by investing in companies that specialize in mining magi.

Giants such as FB, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have established specialized research teams.

Among them, Apple is based in California and has chosen to cooperate with Terence Tao and the University of Berkeley. Apple hopes that mathematicians can crack Heber's algorithm.

At the same time, Apple also acquired the collapsed Arecibo telescope and its associated astronomical observatory from the American National Science Foundation.

The Arecibo Telescope, located in Puerto Rico, is the only giant radio telescope on Blue Star, the other being the China Sky Eye.

The Arecibo telescope suddenly collapsed at the end of 2020, and all the support towers were broken.

The telescope's reflector was also smashed.

Later, the telescope was decommissioned, but its geographical location is still very advantageous and it has a certain foundation.

So Apple simply bought it at a very low price, and then built its own giant radio telescope based on it.

Since taking the lead in the mobile Internet era, Apple has become quite wealthy, even richer than Microsoft, which was able to acquire Blizzard in full cash.

Of course, Microsoft, which invests money in the field of astronomical observation in this dimension, might not acquire Blizzard.

Cash flow is limited.

Of course, it’s not necessarily true. Seeing that Genshin Impact generates RMB 36 billion a year, Microsoft still wants to acquire Blizzard.

(Genshin Impact's annual revenue comes from domestic data, which is not necessarily accurate, because MHY is not a listed company and does not need to publish financial reports. Genshin Impact's revenue is calculated based on the content of financial reports published by various listed company platforms.)

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Huaguo itself has Huaguo Seed Group Co., Ltd., which is the only state-owned enterprise in the planting industry.

Originally, they were going to move collectively from Yanjing to Qionghai recently, but due to new progress in research on Jiang Yan, their relocation work was stopped.

China's seeds have always had a relatively high proportion of domestically produced staple foods such as wheat, corn, and rice, but many vegetable seeds have to be imported.

And in fact, in recent years, the global seed industry has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few companies.

There are mainly five companies: Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Dow and Bayer, and the concentration of the seed industry has increased significantly.

These multinational giants have integrated the seed industry through a series of mergers and acquisitions, and established licensing networks through an increasing number of cross-licensing genetically modified seed trait agreements to achieve benefit sharing.

As for Chinese enterprises, others will not give you a chance, and you do not have the strength to participate.

The ability that Demon Brain brought to Jiang Yan allowed Chinese officials to see the possibility of opening a hole in the seed industry.

Relying on a large number of mutations, suitable mutant seeds are selected, and then the best of the best are selected, analyzed at the genetic level, and seeds with multiple excellent traits are produced through transgenic technology.

Luo Shu lived a hard life in the beautiful Hawaii, but Dong Wenxu, who was also engaged in scientific research, lived a happy life in Yanjing.

He was ordered by Jiang Yan to farm every day. He gained pleasure from farming and gradually did not reject it.

What Dong Wenxu was thinking was that he would go back to middle school to teach biology when he got older.

As many PhDs have returned to teach in middle schools in the past two years, everyone has gradually realized:

If you can't survive in academia without losing face, returning to middle school teaching may be a way out.

Of course, this retreat will become more and more complicated.

But Dong Wenxu was confident that he would have no problem returning to his hometown to become a teacher.

When you let go of the burden in your heart and think that your work must be like this, I must achieve something. When you let go of this thought, you will feel that there are still many beautiful things in life waiting for you to discover.

Dong Wenxu discovered this principle from the growth process of plants after planting.

He looked at the soybeans that were gradually sprouting in the incubator, feeling a sense of the process of life growing.

Like the previous experiments, we looked at crops purely from a genetic perspective, so we only considered which gene segment of the crop was mutated and which gene segment I marked.

What changes will occur in crops after the gene fragment is changed?

Think of plants as purely comparative objects, not as living things.

After experiencing planting, Dong Wenxu realized the joy of life growth.

Jiang Yan called Dong Wenxu over: "We can start with soybeans and study the genetic diversity and genome evolution characteristics of mutant soybeans."

"We need to discover important traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and quality, QTL, and genes for markers."

"And on this basis, various types of molecular marker technologies were developed to identify germplasm resources, creating conditions for soybean germplasm resources to move from phenotypic identification to genotypic identification."

Soybeans have always relied heavily on imports. In 2020, China's soybean imports exceeded 100 million tons for the first time.

Import dependence exceeds 80%.

The demand for soybeans stems from China's demand for oil and protein over the years. Soybeans can provide both cheap edible oil and soybean meal feed.

Therefore, China's demand has surged in recent years. The most urgent challenge Jiang Yan faces is to increase domestic soybean production and reduce import demand by optimizing soybean seeds.

Eighty percent import dependence is too high.

And there is currently no soybean seed that is suitable for the domestic planting environment, although China has cultivated more than 1,300 soybean varieties since its founding.

I saw in the media that the domestic hybrid soybean research bureau is the world leader, but in fact the cost of domestic soybean cultivation is much higher than that of foreign countries.

Last year, the CIF price of imported soybeans was 3,200 yuan per ton, and the price of domestic soybeans was 5,700 yuan per ton.

Soybeans grown domestically, and companies buying domestically produced soybeans, all rely on subsidies.

So Jiang Yan asked Dong Wenxu to start with soybeans.

Dong Wenxu looked troubled: "There are only a few of us. The Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Heilongjiang Province basically has a team of dozens of people doing research on soybean seeds."

"We might as well focus on blank areas in China, such as soybeans. The research team at JMS is already very mature."

Soybean seed research is mainly carried out in the northernmost Black Province. The JMS branch in Black Province has a dedicated team to conduct research in this area. The headquarters of the Black Province Academy of Agricultural Sciences also conducts research on soybean seed industry.

Because domestic soybean planting is mainly in the north, backed by granaries, it is possible to obtain first-line planting data.

"What they do is their business, and what we do is our business. Our method of doing it is different from theirs, and the results are also different."
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