As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 93 Soybean Strategy
Half a year after the release of Magic Coin, not only the Internet giants in Huaguo established a research team for astronomy and mathematics, but also the giants in American did the same.

Financial giants like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan mine by investing in companies that specialize in mining magic coins.

FB, Google, Microsoft, Apple and other giants have set up special research teams.

Among them, Apple relies on California and chooses to cooperate with Terence Tao and Berkeley. Apple hopes that mathematicians can crack the Heber algorithm.

At the same time, Apple also acquired the collapsed Arecibo Telescope and its astronomical observatory from the American National Science Foundation.

The Arecibo Telescope is located in Puerto Rico. It is the only giant radio telescope of Blue Star, and the other one is Huaguo Sky Eye.

The Arecibo Telescope suddenly collapsed at the end of 2020, and all the supporting towers were broken.

The reflector of the telescope was also smashed.

Later, the telescope was decommissioned, but its geographical location is still very superior, and it has a certain foundation.

So Apple simply bought it at a very low price, and then built its own giant radio telescope based on it.

Since taking the lead in the mobile Internet era, Apple is quite rich and powerful, even richer than Microsoft, which can buy Blizzard in full cash.

Of course, Microsoft, which invests money in the field of astronomical observations in this plane, might not buy Blizzard.

Cash flow is limited.

Of course not necessarily, seeing Yuanshen’s annual turnover of 360 billion RMB, Microsoft still wants to acquire Blizzard.

(Yuanshin's annual turnover comes from domestic data, which may not be accurate, because MHY is not a listed company and does not need to publish financial reports. Yuanshen's turnover is calculated based on the content of financial reports published by various listed company platforms.)
Huaguo itself has Huaguo Seed Group Co., Ltd., which is the only central enterprise in the planting industry.

Originally, they were going to collectively move from Yanjing to Qionghai recently, but due to new progress in Jiang Yan's research, their relocation work stopped.

Huaguo's seeds have always had a relatively high proportion of localization of major grains such as wheat, corn, and rice, but many vegetable seeds need to rely on imports.

And in fact, the global seed industry has become more and more concentrated in the hands of a few companies in recent years.

Mainly the five companies, Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Dow and Bayer, have significantly increased the concentration of the seed industry.

These multinational giants have integrated the seed industry through a series of mergers and acquisitions, and established licensing networks through more and more cross-licensing transgenic seed trait agreements to achieve benefit sharing.

As for Huaguo Enterprise, others will not give you a chance, and you don't have the strength to participate.

The ability brought by the devil's brain to Jiang Yan made Huaguo officials see the possibility of tearing a hole in the seed industry.

Rely on a large number of mutations to screen out suitable mutant seeds, and then select the best among the best, conduct genetic analysis, and produce seeds with multiple excellent traits through transgenic technology.

Luo Shu had a hard time in the beautiful Hawaii, while Dong Wenxu, who is also engaged in scientific research, had a very happy life in Yanjing.

He was ordered by Jiang Yan to farm the land every day. He got pleasure from farming, and gradually he did not reject it.

What Dong Wenxu thought in his heart was that it would be a big deal for him to go back to teaching biology in middle school.

In the past two years, many doctors returned to middle school to teach after graduating, and everyone gradually realized that:
There is no shame in being unable to get along in academia, and returning to middle school teaching may be a way out.

Of course, this way of retreat will become more and more complicated.

But Dong Wenxu is confident that it will be no problem for him to return to his hometown and become a teacher.

When you let go of the burden in your heart and feel that your work must be so-and-so, I must have some results.When you let go of this kind of thought, you will feel that there are many beautiful things in life waiting for you to discover.

Dong Wenxu discovered this truth from the growth process of plants after planting.

He watched the soybeans gradually sprouting in the incubator, and there was a process of life growing.

Like the previous experiment, we looked at the crops purely from the genetic point of view, so we only considered which gene segment of the crop was mutated, and which gene segment I marked.

After the gene fragment is changed, what changes will occur in the crop.

Treat plants as pure comparisons, not life.

After planting, Dong Wenxu experienced the joy of growing up in life.

Jiang Yan called Dong Wenxu over: "We can start with soybeans and start research on the genetic diversity and genome evolution characteristics of mutant soybeans."

"We need to discover important traits such as high yield, disease resistance, and quality, QTL, and genes for markers."

"And on this basis, the development of various types of molecular marker technologies and the identification of germplasm resources have created conditions for the identification of soybean germplasm resources from phenotype identification to genotype identification."

Soybeans have always been heavily dependent on imports. In 2020, China's soybean imports exceeded [-] million tons for the first time.

Import dependence is over 80.00%.

The demand for soybeans comes from China's demand for oil and protein over the years. Soybeans can provide both cheap edible oil and soybean meal feed.

Therefore, the demand in Huaguo has skyrocketed in recent years. The most urgent challenge Jiang Yan faces is to increase domestic soybean production and reduce import demand by optimizing soybean seeds.

80.00% import dependence is too high.

Moreover, there is currently no soybean seed suitable for the domestic planting environment, although Huaguo has bred more than 300 soybean varieties since its establishment.

I saw in the media that the domestic hybrid soybean research bureau is the world leader, but in fact the cost of domestic soybean cultivation is much higher than that of foreign countries.

Last year, the CIF price of imported soybeans was 3200 yuan per ton, and that of domestic soybeans was 5700 yuan per ton.

Domestically grown soybeans, and some companies rely on subsidies to buy domestically produced soybeans.

So Jiang Yan asked Dong Wenxu to start with soybeans.

Dong Wenxu showed embarrassment: "There are only a few of us here, and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Heilongjiang basically has a team of dozens of people dedicated to the research of soybean seeds."

"We might as well focus on blank fields in China, such as soybeans. The research team of JMS Academy is already very mature."

Soybean seed research is mainly carried out in the northernmost Heilongjiang Province. The JMS branch of Heilongjiang Province has a special team to do research in this area, and the headquarters of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences also conducts research on soybean seed industry.

Because the domestic soybean planting is mainly in the north, backed by the granary, we can get the first-line planting data.

"What they do is their business, and what we do is our business. Our methods are different from theirs, and the results are also different."

"Besides, we haven't done it yet. How do you know that our genetically modified soybean seeds are not as good as those in Heilongjiang Province?"

(End of this chapter)