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Chapter 1146 New Challenges in Agriculture ([-])
After the sky was completely dark, the wild rice specimens were delivered as scheduled. The conditions for picking were limited, and there was no special specimen bottle. They came in a cloth bag, which weighed more than ten catties in their hands. The assistants directly found a small piece of rice. The clumps of wild rice were not as tall as the weeds. When they found it, there was a small group of refugees looking for wild vegetables. Thanks to the quick action of the assistants, they pretended to be wild vegetables and picked up the wild rice and left in time.

Seeing wild rice for the first time, Qi Ke took a long time to hand it over to the deputy housekeeper to carry it away for follow-up processing. Search for hybrid rice with keywords in agricultural materials.

Unfortunately, there is no special breeding method for hybrid rice, and there is no information related to the cultivation of staple grains and miscellaneous grains. At most, there are some theoretical descriptions to help readers understand, such as what hybrid rice is and what it is. The mother parent, etc., but there is no specific step-by-step test standard.

This result was also within Qi Ke’s expectations. She knew the scope of the information she had collected. She just searched with a little hope to see if there were any surprises, and she was not sad if she did not. A professional student, not an agricultural student, lives in a peaceful society with plenty of food, so naturally she has some habitual thinking. Who would have imagined that one day she would face the day when she would have to produce high-yield hybrid rice.

"Is there no available information?" Zhao Lin came to Qi Ke's side, and was not surprised by this result. All the books and materials in Qi Ke's hands had been converted to electronic files early, and Zhao Lin knew whether there were any applicable materials.

"There is only this theoretical description of hybrid rice, and there is no experimental standard." Qi Ke opened the few pages and projected them on the wall.

"Theoretical descriptions are enough. Don't worry, we have plant seeds from all walks of life, and there are a lot of grains. This wild rice is the No. [-] variety in our world. There is no ready-made test standard, so we will learn from other grains. So much rice is enough for us to do many experiments.”

Qi Ke's eyes lit up, and he realized that he was on the edge of his own horn, "It makes sense! But the lieutenants still need to continue to look for wild rice, in case our experiments don't go well and we run out of rice seeds."

The meaning of experiment is trial and error. After experiencing countless failures, you can find the right one. Don’t look at the more than ten catties of rice seeds, which seem to be quite a lot. In fact, they are very fast in practice. If the test goes wrong, it will be gone in the blink of an eye.

"Okay." Zhaolin immediately sent a message to the deputy housekeeper. After finishing the gene sequencing and analysis, he planted one-third of the rice seeds separately to observe the growth and yield. After harvesting, he did genetic comparison to see if the rice was usable.

"There is a natural advantage in doing this kind of experiment in Qianhejing, and the results can be seen in a few days if it succeeds or not, but the resistance to diseases and insect pests and lodging resistance tests still have to be done outside."

"Then send another deputy to clean up our land in Liangshui Town, set aside a rice test field, and conduct experiments on resistance to diseases, insect pests and lodging there. On the basis of the current rice production, as long as the production can be increased by [-] catties, we can increase the production by [-] jin. If the standard seeds are planted in the grain fields, in the future, people from all over the world will come to us to buy new rice seeds.”

"Well, let's do this, set aside special experimental fields and grain farming as the most important defensive areas, except for the deputy, no outsiders are strictly allowed to approach, even the maids sent to work in agriculture can only be in the ration fields, vegetable fields and poultry fields. Do things in the circle, unless there is special permission from the two of us, for example, the generals of the Bai family army want to visit on the spot."

"Ok."

(End of this chapter)