Chapter 16 Biological breeding, biological oil fields, metal fruits
Avril heard that Wu Siyuan was going to set up a magic academy, so she came over and told Wu Siyuan that she wanted to help. Although her attainments in magic can only be said to be average, and even Wu Siyuan cannot compare with them, magicians are cutting-edge talents after all, just like
The doctor of Zai Shui was also a doctor, so Wu Siyuan gave Avril, the mermaid, a position as a water magic tutor with a wave of his hand.
Avril proudly cooed in front of Helen, a little vixen.
The little fox's mouth turned into a moon bud. He went to Wu Siyuan with grievance and told him that he also wanted to contribute his own strength. Wu Siyuan thought about it and with a stroke of his pen, there were many more people in the magic academy that had not yet been established.
Created a series - the Behemoth War Song series.
Although most altar sacrifices pass [Psychic War Song], they inherit knowledge from their mentors and thus embark on the path of sacrifice.
But this does not mean that altar sacrifices can only rely on [Psychic War Song] to be passed down.
Using traditional education methods, there is a certain probability of understanding the essence of [War Song] and embarking on the path of altar sacrifice.
But this is a very difficult road.
There are many words in [War Song] that come from dragon language and elven language. They are very obscure and have complicated pronunciation. If you want to master them, you need to put in a lot of hard work, and you may not be successful.
When Wu Siyuan asked Helen to open a [War Song Department], Helen was also very unsure, but Wu Siyuan encouraged her, saying that you may not succeed if you try, but if you don't try, you will definitely not succeed.
Then Wu Siyuan said a lot of encouraging words. Helen was greatly encouraged and devoted herself wholeheartedly to the inheritance of "War Hymn".
Behemoth beauty Ningyu from the East took a look and became interested. Her racial ability [Detection and Pearl Retrieval] cannot be taught, but [Illusion] is very difficult to learn - she has learned from her race for many years.
It can be seen that only one illusionist can be produced, and this is the case when the Ningyu race has a racial bonus in illusion.
Of course, Ningyu is more for fun.
There is also Ferguson Xu, Wu Siyuan’s prisoner. Although he is an old yinbi, he has no bottom line, but he has to admit that this guy is very talented in [Fangshu] and [Qimen Dunjia].
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In the original work, it was he who developed the [Anerle Array], also known as the [Insulation Array], which combines the earth-avoiding barrier and the water-condensing barrier. It can not only keep the moisture in the air, but also
Being able to avoid dust allows the sea people to set foot on land and launch another land and sea war.
Of course, in this time and space, Old Man Xu was captured by Wu Siyuan before he could show his value to the Hai Clan.
By the way, the Mermaid King of the West Asia royal family also became his blood contract slave. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be no chance of the land and sea war in the original work.
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Helen and her group discussed (quarreled) for a long time and finally decided on a name for the academy to be established, called [Feleng Cui Magic and War Song Academy].
Wu Siyuan never cares about these trivial things.
Ever since he obtained [Yougua] and [Measure of Gold], Wu Siyuan's attention has long been no longer on magic.
He Youman has proven that after simple purification, the juice in [yougua] is very similar to gasoline in properties, has a low flash point, and burns fully. Its quality is no worse than the so-called 95 gasoline, and is even much better. It is a high-quality oil.
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If it can be grown on a large scale, these [oil melons] will become natural oil fields.
The cultivation of [oil melon] does not have many requirements on the environment. As long as the soil is fertile enough, it is fine. However, the yield is low. Generally, one [oil melon] can only grow one or two [oil melon].
No more.
And a [oil melon], cut open, contains only four or five seeds.
This is also one of the reasons why in the novel, even though Liu Zhenzhen had the [Fountain of Life], his number of [Gourds] was never large.
Of course, Liu Zhenzhen's battles one after another also consumed a large amount of his [Yougua] quantity.
In this situation, it was not until Liu Zhenshao obtained the help of the [Eternal Moon Well] from the Elf clan and the Hulk clan that he increased the number of [Gourds].
But Wu Siyuan doesn't like this method of relying on external objects.
The main reason is that Wu Siyuan wants to bring [oil melon] back to the real world for planting.
It's just that [Yougua] can be covered up with scientific research results, but how to explain [Eternal Moon Well]? And [Eternal Moon Well] is not a mass product.
In addition, having [Eternal Moon Well] is not enough. We also need the cooperation of the Hulk family's plant spells to make [Gourd] burst into production.
Hulk!
Does Wu Siyuan want to explain to people all over the world that these Hulks have become like this because they have experienced gamma rays? Should everyone believe in science?
In this way, Wu Siyuan will indeed gain unparalleled influence, but if nothing else, the [Super Group] he established will definitely be swallowed up by others, and even he will have his freedom restricted. Wu Siyuan would not even think about this method and would definitely not adopt it.
Therefore, we still need to use biological breeding methods to solve the problem of [oil melon] yield.
Generally speaking, there are two methods of biological breeding, one is conventional breeding.
Conventional crop breeding involves screening a large area or a large number of plants. After discovering plants with excellent traits, they are then cultivated and screened year by year until a new variety with excellent quality and stable traits is obtained. This generally requires more than 3 to 4 generations.
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For example, in the real world, the Illinois Agricultural Experimental Field in the United States researched and bred a type of corn that increased the average population protein content from 10.95% to 26.60%, which took 70 years!
Therefore, it is not easy for an agricultural expert to cultivate a superior variety in his lifetime.
Conventional breeding uses naturally occurring mutations, called "spontaneous mutations," which take a long time to occur.
Artificial use of physical, chemical and other factors can also cause gene mutations, which is called "induced mutation". This mutation may occur in a short period of time. The use of induced mutations to cultivate improved varieties is called "mutation breeding".
This is the second breeding method.
Mutation breeding includes chemical mutagenesis, nuclear radiation mutagenesis, photomutation, etc. Laser breeding is a new branch of photomutation.
The simplest laser mutagenesis is suitable for granular seeds, such as wheat, rice, cereals, seed-sown vegetables, etc. The method is to select the appropriate wavelength, power and time to directly irradiate the seeds, and then sow them into the soil according to conventional methods.
Cultivate and select plants with mutated characteristics to obtain the required new varieties.
More complex laser mutagenesis breeding is more troublesome.
Take the sweet oranges cultivated by Southwest Normal University as an example. The university started mutagenic breeding of golden oranges using helium-neon, Ru glass, helium-cadmium and other lasers in 1975. They used 3,200 young shoots irradiated by lasers.
It is grafted on the outer oblique layer of the crown of a 20-year-old Jinchen tree, and the primary branches that have grown out should be short-cut and trimmed with 4 to 5 buds at the base.
Because most mutations are usually limited to 5 to 10 buds at the base of primary branches, after the results of the high grafting inflorescences in 1978, the fruit quality was analyzed and identified, and 8 inflorescences with large variations were screened out. In 1979, buds were taken from these eight branches and grafted again to the outside of the canopy of an 18-year-old adult red orange tree to obtain the second generation of laser irradiation.
The results were obtained year by year from 1982 to 1985, showing genetic stability. In 1986, after identification, a new sweet orange variety with early maturity, polysaccharide and few cores was finally bred.
In the work of cultivating new animal species, laser uses biogenetic engineering technology. By fusing two different types of biological cells together to form another new cell, another new organism is created. For example, a laser microbeam is used to punch holes in silkworm egg cells called "dragon horns", and then a certain chromatin solution called "black silkworm" silkworm is injected into it. After incubation and cultivation, a new variety of silkworms with special properties is obtained. But this is another situation.
Whether it is conventional breeding or mutation breeding, the most critical factor is time.
And [Fountain of Life] can help Wu Siyuan greatly shorten the breeding time.
[Shennongjiao Space] can detect the attributes of planted plants, and can also help him select experimental crops with excellent traits as quickly as possible.
He Youman had another research task, so Wu Siyuan did the breeding of [oil melon] himself.
As the diluted [Fountain of Life] drips down drop by drop, each [oil melon] plant will grow vigorously.
Among them, the [oil melon] seeds that produce the largest number of melons and have the richest juice are selected for a new round of planting and then screening.
The excellent variety [oil melon] that originally took decades or hundreds of years to cultivate was produced by Wu Siyuan in a very short period of time.
A single [oil melon] plant will bear at least five [oil melons], six or seven are not uncommon.
On average, for every kilogram of [oil melon], 0.65 kilograms of biogasoline can be obtained.
An average [oil melon] weighs 5 kilograms, and if it is large, it can reach 7 or 8 kilograms.
Calculated based on the yield of 5 [oil melon] plants, 8.125 kilograms of biogasoline can be obtained, which is about 10 liters of gasoline.
According to 95 gasoline in 2016, one liter is 6.46 yuan, and 10 liters is 64.6 yuan.
One acre of [oil melon] weighs about 2,000-3,000 kilograms, which means that you can benefit at least 5,248 yuan, or even 8,000 yuan.
The planting cycle of [oil melon] was originally two harvests a year, but under Wu Siyuan's selection and breeding, it became three harvests a year.
An acre of [oil melon] can earn you at least 1 yuan.
Of course, since then, [oil melon]’s demand for fertilizer has also become much higher, but it is completely worth it.
He Youman has estimated that after deducting various costs, one acre of [oil melon] can still benefit - yuan.
Ten acres of [oil melon] can earn hundreds of thousands a year.
On average, I can earn about 10,000 yuan a month.
This number may not seem like a lot, but in 2016, how many people can actually get 10,000 yuan a month?
The circle of friends seems to have a lot of glamor, and it feels like it is easy for people around to make money, but in fact, there are more people disappearing from the circle of friends.
But these silent majority have been ignored.
Return to [Yougua].
Wu Siyuan knew that a powerful weapon like [You Gua] would definitely attract covetous attention after being put into the real world.
Therefore, in order to protect his own interests and ensure his influence, Wu Siyuan adopted a variety of protective measures against him.
For example, refer to the principles of cultivating seedless watermelons.
Seedless watermelon is grown from seeds, but these seeds are not the seeds of seedless watermelon, but the seeds of tetraploid watermelon formed by crossing the natural diploid watermelon with the tetraploid produced by mutation. Use artificial methods to induce polyploidy. For example, colchicine (a plant alkaloid) is used to treat diploid watermelon seeds or seedlings to prevent the formation of spindle fibers and primary walls in the mid-stage of cell division, causing replication to occur.
The chromosome set cannot be divided into two poles and forms a secondary wall in the middle. As a result, a cell with a doubled chromosome set is formed, doubling the chromosome set of ordinary diploid watermelon to obtain a tetraploid watermelon plant. Then it is combined with the diploid watermelon plant
(as the male parent) cross to obtain triploid seeds. The triploid plants developed from the triploid seeds cannot form normal reproductive cells due to the disorder of synapsis of homologous chromosomes during the reduction process. Then use
The mature diploid pollen of ordinary watermelon stimulates the ovary of the flower of the triploid plant and becomes a triploid fruit. Because the ovules cannot develop into seeds, it is called triploid seedless watermelon.
In this way, Wu Siyuan turned [oil melon] into seedless [oil melon].
Seedless [oil melon] will wither after one year of planting. If you want to continue planting, you can only get seeds from Wu Siyuan.
This ensures that [Yougua], a big killer, is firmly in Wu Siyuan's hands.
Wu Siyuan also plans to treat another magical plant - [Dianjin Mulberry] in this way.
It would be nice to keep such good things in China.
Of course, [Dianjin Mulberry] also needs to be selected and re-cultivated.
Because each year, one [Golden Mulberry] yields only about fifty pounds of [King Kong Solid].
One pound is 0.9 pounds, and fifty pounds is 45 pounds.
In other words, it takes a single [Pink of Gold] tree one year to condense 45 kilograms of alloy from underground veins.
One hundred [Golden Mulberry] trees can only produce 4,500 kilograms a year.
This output is so low that it is difficult for Wu Siyuan to look directly at it.
Therefore, Wu Siyuan focused on the yield, using [Fountain of Life] to accelerate the growth rate of [Dianjin Mulberry], screening out the [Dianjin Mulberry] that produced more results, and breeding it from generation to generation.
This work is much more time-consuming than cultivating [oil melon].
I don’t know how many generations of [Dianjin Mulberry] were selected and how much [Fountain of Life] was used. Wu Siyuan finally bred a [Dianjin Mulberry] whose fruit was completely metalized, and he saw the dawn of hope.