forest developer

Chapter 447 Gene Mutations

Ling Zikai smiled, and said, "Uncle Zhang, the person who spread the word is probably not in the bar because of the ulterior motives!"

Zhang Jiefang snorted coldly, and said, "Someone wants to muddy the water, fish in troubled waters! I just don't know if they have such a big appetite."

Ling Zikai knew that Zhang Jiefang was now facing the same situation as Zhang Tianming was back then.

Ling Zikai told Zhang Jiefang about Mu Sen's company.

Zhang Jiefang was silent for a while after hearing this, and said, "Zikai, before the final investigation results come out, can you suppress this matter first?"

Ling Zikai said with some puzzlement: "Uncle Zhang, those infectious pathogens are like a ignited fuse, and they will explode at any time. The longer the delay, the greater the consequences. Time waits for no one!"

Ling Zikai understood what Zhang Jiefang meant, and he wanted to give him some time to make arrangements. Obviously, he also wanted to use this matter to seek some of his own demands, or to reach an agreement with some people.

Naturally, Ling Zikai would not refuse this request, and agreed wholeheartedly.

When going there, Guina drove all the way, and it only took two and a half hours.It was Zhang Jun who drove the car back. He didn't dare to drive like Guina. He had dinner in the service area on the way. It took more than four hours. When he returned to BS City, it was already midnight.

Back at the Baishan Hotel, a new room was opened for Gu Yina and Zhang Nan to sleep together, and Ling Zikai and Zhang Jun shared the same room.

Having been running around in the car from afternoon to night, Ling Zikai also felt a little tired, so he didn't disturb the others, and fell asleep after returning to his room.

The next day, after Lin Xing'an arrived, Ling Zikai briefly explained the situation to him.

Lin Xing'an didn't say a word, and Zhang Nan took those plant specimens straight to Lin University for testing.

Ling Zikai, Zhang Jun and Gu Yina went to the hospital and asked Ru Xue some questions.

From Ru Xue's mouth, Ling Zikai learned that in the past few years, the supply of seedlings in the entire Moluo County was almost monopolized by Musen Company.At the beginning, they also provided some regular varieties of saplings.But three years ago, they began to promote the fir, saying that it was a new species bred by the company.In other words, in the past three years, the planting of fir trees accounted for nearly [-]% of the total.

Ling Zikai was taken aback, and immediately called Zhou Wentao, asking him to investigate the sales list of Musen Company and count the number of fir tree seedlings cultivated and sold in recent years, as well as the sales area.

Soon, Zhou Wentao replied.

Over the past few years, Musen Company has cultivated a total of nearly one billion seedlings, basically all of which have been sold, and the sales area is almost all over the entire northern province.

Know Hearing this data, Ling Zikai hurriedly reported the situation to Zhang Jiefang, and asked him to notify the forestry departments in various places to immediately investigate whether there was any deadness in the forest land where the fir saplings provided by Musen Company were planted.

After that, Ling Zikai didn't stay in the hospital any longer, but went to Linda University, hoping to sit there and wait for the test results to come out.

On the way to Lin University, Ling Zikai suddenly remembered that his father owed Musen Company the money for the seedlings. Did he also buy some fir saplings?
Immediately called Du Juan to inquire.

Hearing Ling Zikai's question, Du Juan felt a little strange: "At the beginning, we heard that Musen Company had bred a new variety of fir trees, so we bought some seedlings and went back to plant them. There are about [-] trees, right?"

"Where are those saplings planted?"

"It's on the hill beside the meadow near Weiyang Lake, haven't you seen it before?"

Hearing what Du Juan said, Ling Zikai really remembered that there was a large expanse of fir trees planted in Caodianzi, but he hadn't noticed before: "How are those trees growing now?"

"When it was first planted, it was growing well, but since this year, some trees have withered. I don't know why, I asked Professor Lin to check it out, and you can ask him when you go back! Why are you suddenly concerned? Are you talking about these things?"

"I'm just asking casually!"

Before the final test results came out, Ling Zikai didn't want to tell Du Juan the truth.

After waiting under the laboratory building of Lin University for more than an hour, Lin Xing'an and Zhang Nan came out.

From Lin Xing'an's stern expression, he could already guess the test results.

Before Ling Zikai could ask, Lin Xing'an handed him a stack of test data sheets in his hand, and said, "We have carried out three tests on DNA molecules, exogenous proteins and nucleic acids on the plant specimens, and we can conclude that the Musen Company's fir The tree is a genetically modified plant."

"What caused the death?"

"After base pair and polypeptide chain analysis, we found that some sites had a few more base pairs, and some places lost a few base pairs, resulting in a misalignment of the coding sequence. This misplacement triggers Abnormal genetic information. Academically, it is called frameshift mutation.

Genes with frameshift mutations cause changes in the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain, which seriously affects the structure and function of proteins and enzymes. "

Regarding genetically modified knowledge, Ling Zikai was a complete layman. Even though Lin Xing'an had explained it in great detail, he still had only a half-knowledge.Fortunately, he doesn't need to study these esoteric professional knowledge now, as long as he knows that there are problems with these fir saplings.

"Uncle Lin, do you know if this frameshift mutation is caused by humans, or caused by the natural environment?"

"It's hard to be sure, maybe it's because the technology is immature, which caused defects in the breeding process; it may also be a mutation caused by external environmental stimuli. But in either case, unstable transgenic plants like this are not If the promotion and application are allowed, Musen Company must take full responsibility."

If it was only the mutation of the sapling's gene that caused the dead phenomenon, then what happened to the gray aura I sensed in the forest?
(End of this chapter)