Military Technology

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 to take a quick tour of these 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.

No photography allowed here! Yang Fang saw someone 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 his phone angrily.

This involves the confidentiality of some related technical achievements, so any form of photography and video recording is prohibited. Please abide by it voluntarily. 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. What you have seen in the glass greenhouse before Some plants were 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, we will show you our latest achievements in the field of fast-growing plant technology. "

With that, Yang Fang led everyone to a test bench, and then continued to introduce 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 grows 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.

Now, we will show you a fast-growing plant technology that we have researched and cultivated. "

As he spoke, 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, with everyone watching, the researcher took a green hand sprayer and sprayed water continuously on the soil in the glass container, spraying the entire humus soil.

While everyone was puzzled, a small white bud suddenly appeared in the sprayed humus soil. When the researcher saw this, he immediately stopped spraying water.

The 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 a video, people would not believe it and suspect that the video was edited at a accelerated rate. And all of this happened while everyone was watching. This growth rate probably exceeded the growth rate 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 already grown to thirty or forty centimeters. At this time, a scientific researcher brought a scaffold and placed it next to the seedling. The seedling quickly began to wrap around and climb faster and faster, as if it had found the scaffold.

The researcher then sprayed some green solution on the soil below. Upon seeing this, Yang Fang smiled at the shocked people and introduced: "Because plants grow too 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. And there are some small flower buds growing on the vines.

The buds are also growing larger and finally open into small yellow flowers. At this time, the researcher picked up a small brush and quickly brushed and dyed the flowers. Seeing this, Yang Fang explained with a smile: "Because the plants grow too fast, 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. The fruit grew larger and larger, and gradually developed a shape.

This is a gourd! Everyone couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw the small gourd tied on it.

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. .”

The gourds grew bigger and bigger, and finally grew to some small gourds about ten or twenty centimeters. And over time, these gourds began to slowly change color, some always remained green, some were gold, some were loess, some were red, orange, and some were 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 they can be picked and then gradually dried in the shade, or put into drying equipment and slowly dried. "

As she spoke, Yang Fang tied a pair of scissors, cut off the largest yellow gourd, and handed it to Zhang Jun.

"It's unbelievable." Zhang Jun was shocked and sighed as he looked at the gourd.

"Gourds are okay. Does this mean other vines are also okay, such as watermelons, cucumbers, pumpkins, and beans." 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 can now be successfully applied to some fruit and vegetable varieties. However, due to some technical reasons, we are still unable to achieve the rapid growth of woody plants and are still working on it.