Chapter 2121 Shock: Plants that grow up instantly!
After walking around a few more glass greenhouses, everyone came to the plant science research center next to it.
Everyone put on a set of white lab coats, put on shoe covers, and walked into this mysterious research center.
The entire plant science research center experimental building covers a large area and is divided into several areas according to different projects. Each area is subdivided into several laboratories or project teams.
Due to limited time, Yang Fang just led them around the laboratories and then came to a relatively mysterious laboratory.
This laboratory is not much different from an ordinary laboratory. Perhaps the various plants have become the most eye-catching presence in this laboratory.
Photography is prohibited here! Yang Fang saw a person in the crowd holding up a mobile phone and was about to take a photo, and immediately stopped him. As for this person, he smiled awkwardly, and then put away the mobile phone angrily.
This involves the confidentiality of some related technical achievements, so any form of photography and video is prohibited. Please abide by it. After speaking, Yang Fang smiled at everyone and introduced: "This is a core laboratory of our plant science research center.
It mainly studies plant gene implantation, fusion, and gene editing technologies. Some of the plants that you have seen in the glass greenhouse before were all cultivated through research here.
Of course, the most famous achievement of this laboratory is the cultivation of drought-resistant and fast-growing Moso bamboo varieties, as well as a series of fast-growing and drought-resistant varieties such as Haloxylon ammodendron, poplar, and Scotch pine.
And here, what we will show you is our latest achievements in the field of fast-growing plant technology."
With that, Yang Fang led everyone to a test bench, and then introduced to everyone: "As you know, the fastest-growing fast-growing plant we have cultivated so far is the fast-growing Super Haloxylon ammodendron No. 3. It can grow in one day.
It can grow to a height of 2.5 to 3 meters in a short period of time, which is faster than the growth rate of moso bamboo shoots.
And now, we will show you the fast-growing plant technology we have developed through research."
With that said, at Yang Fang's signal, an experimenter took out a seed from a container and planted it into the soft humus soil in a glass container. Then under the watchful eyes of everyone, this person
The scientific researcher held a green hand sprayer and continuously sprayed water on the soil in the glass container to wet the entire humus soil.
Just when everyone was puzzled, a small white bud suddenly appeared in the sprayed humus soil. Upon seeing this, the researcher stopped spraying water.
And this little white bud that came out actually began to grow rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a while, it grew to seven or eight centimeters, and soon a leaf grew.
The whole process is like a fast-forward video of plant growth. If it were just through the video, everyone would not believe it and suspect that the video was edited at a accelerated pace. And all of this happened while everyone was watching. This growth
The speed may have exceeded the growth speed of all plants in the world.
And the growth of this little seedling continued, and it crossed obstacles faster and faster. To everyone's surprise, this little seedling had grown to thirty or forty centimeters. At this time, a scientific researcher brought a stent.
Placed next to the seedling, the seedling quickly began to climb up as if it had found a support, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
The researcher then sprayed some green solution on the soil below. Upon seeing this, Yang Fang smiled and introduced to the shocked people: "Because plants grow so fast, they have to absorb nutrients and water from the soil.
It is relatively large. Therefore, it is necessary to replenish fertilizer and water in time to avoid delaying the normal growth of the plant."
While everyone was listening to Yang Fang's introduction, the seedling had grown to more than two meters long, and its leaves were gradually growing out, becoming very lush. There were also some small flower buds growing on the vines.
The flower buds also continued to grow, and finally opened into small yellow flowers. At this time, the researcher picked up a small brush and quickly brushed the flowers. Seeing this, Yang Fang explained with a smile: "Because of the plant's growth rate
It is too fast, so the flowering period is relatively short, so pollination needs to be carried out in time. We do not have the conditions for natural pollination here, so we can only carry out artificial pollination."
Under Yang Fang's introduction, the yellow flowers that had been pollinated quickly began to wither, and small green fruits grew out one after another. The fruits grew bigger and bigger, and gradually took on a new shape.
This is a gourd! When everyone saw the small gourd on it, they couldn't help but exclaimed.
Yang Fang smiled and nodded: "Yes, this is a colorful gourd variety we have cultivated. We have implanted some plant color genes into its genes, so the gourds it produces will be colored when mature.
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The gourds grew bigger and bigger, and finally grew to some small gourds about ten to twenty centimeters. And as time went by, these gourds began to slowly change color, some always remained green, some were golden, and some were loess.
Colorful, including red, orange, and purple.
Seeing this, everyone at the scene applauded under the leadership of Wu Hao.
Today they finally had their eyes opened. In about ten minutes, they saw the whole process of growing from a seed into a gourd vine and producing colorful gourds.
It's really amazing!
It can be said that this has subverted the cognition of everyone present.
Are these gourds ripe? Zhang Jun asked Yang Fang.
Hearing Zhang Jun's words, Yang Fang smiled and shook her head: "If we follow the fruit maturity standards of normal plants, these gourds are obviously mature. However, they have not yet become woody and have reached the standard of Wenwan gourds.
So under normal circumstances, we need to hang it on the gourd vine and dry it in the shade. Or pick it and then gradually dry it in the shade, or put it in a drying equipment and slowly dry it.
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Saying that, Yang Fang tied a pair of scissors, then cut off the largest yellow gourd, and handed it to Zhang Jun.
"It's unbelievable." Zhang Jun looked at the gourd and was deeply shocked.
"Gourds are okay, does this mean other vines are also okay, such as watermelons, cucumbers, pumpkins, beans, etc." Wu Hao looked at the gourd in Zhang Jun's hand, and then looked at the gourd vine.
And the colorful gourds on it, he asked thoughtfully.
Of course, this technology has been successfully applied to some fruit and vegetable varieties. However, due to some technical reasons, we are still unable to achieve rapid growth of woody plants and are still working on it.