Abandoned the Immortal Cultivator, returned to his hometown to farm and sing

Chapter 1056 1048. Tool Man

This car looks fierce.

Sitting is also fierce.

It's also very pretentious.

There were two guards, one driving and the other sitting in the passenger seat, and the back seat was quite spacious for Luo Yihang and the other two.

At the back is an oversized trunk, almost as big as Luo Yihang’s pickup truck bed, and it’s filled with boxes.

The box looked very familiar, it was the sample box that Wenying and her colleagues often used.

I brought back a lot this time.

After getting on the car, Wenying gave a brief introduction. The two people in front were staff members sent by the Corps to look after the samples.

Most likely they are also provided for protection.

The country will send security secretaries to senior scientists to be responsible for their safety during travel, and Wenying is almost qualified.

But I didn't say it clearly in front of others.

The two staff members turned around and nodded to Luo Yihang as a greeting without saying anything.

He stepped on the accelerator and headed straight for the back mountain.

No need for directions, it seems you've done your homework.

The warriors are really fierce.

We climbed up the big slope behind Ping'angou easily, and the engine sound didn't change much.

What a nice car.

"I'll buy one later." Luo Yihang also liked it and whispered to Luo Hongzhi.

Luo Hongzhi nodded like a chick pecking at rice, "Yeah, yeah, I'll buy one too."

He already has four cars, and he still wants to buy...

It’s a pity that the latter part is too close and I arrived there without feeling it much.

After getting off the car, we pushed all the sample boxes into the laboratory hall.

Wenying was busy arranging the table and arranging the samples.

Also grouped.

Very déjà vu.

"What? Do you really want to do it again?" Luo Yihang asked curiously.

Wenying nodded calmly, "It's still the same problem. There are too many candidate samples. This time we chose Asteraceae, a super large family with more than a thousand genera and more than 3 species. Now we have screened F, and there are more than candidates. It will get harder as we go further."

I understand, I understand. The screening is fast in the front, and the conditions are similar in the back, so it becomes increasingly difficult to screen.

Then I thought of metaphysics again, and I tasted the sweetness.

The more you interact with scientific researchers in various colleges and research institutes, you will find that the more advanced the laboratory is, the more superstitious they are.

The end of science is metaphysics.

Ma Zhitao mentioned that when they were cultivating spores, they would praise them the night before and whisper to the bacteria, "Baby, you are growing so well. You can grow so much in one night. I love you so much~~" It really worked.

While eating and chatting, Ma Zhitao imitated it in a suppressed voice, but it made Luo Yihang feel sick.

He also had a reason, saying that any living thing could receive the brain waves generated by human emotions.

When Luo Yihang called Ding Rui, Ding Rui said it was the same over there.

It is called a quantum phenomenon that cannot be observed by existing means...

And they all have their reasons.

Anyway, the most important thing is, no matter how it was produced, as long as it is successful, don't change it, just follow the steps.

Even if it's "burn incense before use, then kowtow 360 degrees," it's best to do it because that's the conclusion they came to after countless experiments.

Wenying originally disdained this.

However, Luo Yihang’s choice last time was simply too good. For the first time, in the first group, he activated the magical skill “Rapid Growth”.

Even just two varieties need to be crossed. This time, Wenying seemed to be really at her wit's end, and naturally thought of her boss' luck.

Those who do scientific research have always had a jingle.

Mathematics requires a genius, materials require a European emperor, and breeding requires a genius European emperor.

Wenying thinks she is qualified to be a genius, but in terms of luck... Xue Wei is a little bit behind.

Fortunately, I have a good boss and I am very lucky, so I can make up for it.

So, Luo Yihang is just a tool.

Including Luo Hongzhi, who is also a tool man. Last time, it was Luo Hongzhi who came up with the idea of ​​drawing lots to divide the groups and made the boxes, and he was the one who did it again this time.

There was also a tool man named Ma Zhitao who was there at the time and also came over.

This is the first time Wenying has taken the initiative to study metaphysics. She is still a beginner and follows the steps strictly.

Never a sudden inspiration.

Ma Zhitao came over quickly.

Plus the two guards, the doctoral student who’s on duty in the lab, and the ones who are grinning while holding water chestnuts.

Everyone worked together to label the samples.

There are more than four hundred and seventy of them, so it will take a while to post them.

While putting labels on, Wenying talked about their work during this period.

Since the last time Ma Zhitao talked about jelly, he reminded Wenying that she could try using culture matrix and colloidal water to replenish the water for the Amaranthus seeds so that they can survive the early growth stage.

Wenying and her colleagues conducted a large number of experiments and found that it is indeed feasible to use a layer of coating on the outside of the seeds with a water-retaining agent to provide water for the period when the roots of the Amaranthus have not yet reached the aquifer.

Then we tried various water-retaining agents, but they were difficult to use in the harsh desert conditions because they either evaporated too quickly or were not resistant to high temperatures.

The bigger problem is that it cannot be decomposed naturally, and if used in large quantities, the fragile ecology of the desert cannot withstand it.

After careful selection, inulin was chosen as the main water-retaining agent. It is sun-resistant, slow-release, and decomposes naturally in 30 to 45 days.

It is a gel that releases moisture slowly.

However, inulin has very poor water absorption. Just as Luo Yihang had wondered before, it can only absorb three times its own weight in water. That old polysaccharide and that little bit of water will surely choke the seeds to death.

Wenying and the others naturally thought of what Luo Yihang had thought of, so they decided to cultivate a new plant to solve this problem, increase the molecular weight of inulin, form a more stable gel structure, and increase the water absorption of inulin to more than 10 times.

More importantly, it is necessary to introduce specific inulin synthase genes through gene editing, so that they can combine with polyglutamic acid obtained by microbial fermentation to form a complex water-retaining structure.

When Wenying said this, Ma Zhitao puffed out his chest. Microbial fermentation is his job.

Unfortunately, the performance was shown to the blind and no one noticed it, because Wenying saw Luo Yihang and Luo Hongzhi frowning, probably because they didn't quite understand.

He drew a square in the air with his finger.

"Simply put, the combination of these two ingredients is similar to making a cube. The water-retaining structure of inulin that absorbs three times as much water can only increase to 3 times, but the water-retaining performance of inulin that absorbs 20 times as much water can be increased to 10 to 500 times after forming a composite structure."

Square and cube, this is easy to understand.

3 * 3 * 3 = 27
10 * 10 * 10 = 1000
Luo Yihang silently memorized it in his mind. Now that he knew the specific requirements, he would be more accurate when using the traction technique later.

Wenying's story wasn't over yet.

In addition to new crops that can produce inulin, amaranth also needs to be cultivated. The growth direction of the main root needs to be controlled so that it grows straight toward the ground and does not get crowded together in the water-retaining agent. The density of lateral roots also needs to be increased to increase the water absorption area, because before the main root contacts the aquifer, all water needs to be absorbed from the water-retaining agent using the lateral roots.

In addition, after inulin is produced, how to grow it, what is the yield, and whether it is easy to process and extract.

Also what ingredients should be added to minimize evaporation, reflect ultraviolet rays, and how to process it.

There are so many things to do.

As for why there are saline-alkali lands among the five questions.

That was a natural thing to do, because she had seen too many abandoned saline-alkali lands in XJ, and the research on salt-tolerant ice grass had recently made a breakthrough.

Of course, the most important thing is that Asteraceae is the family with the most species that are tolerant to salt, alkali and barrenness. If new varieties are bred this time, 80% of them will have this characteristic, so it would be a waste not to use them.

Saline-alkali land is cheap and available in large quantities. If we really want to use it as a water-retaining agent to control desertification, a large planting area is absolutely necessary, and the limited arable land in the country is definitely not enough.

Wenying is becoming more and more like a great person, and she considers things in a very comprehensive way...

(End of this chapter)