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Chapter 58 What is Hybrid Rice
After planting the seedlings, the family finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Yao was pouring water for Hong Daniu and the others, now that the seedlings are planted, everyone can finally sit in the living room and drink a glass of water.

"Sister-in-law, why did you separate the two fields for planting rice seedlings?" Chen Baojia finally asked the question that had been pent up in his heart for several days.

"You will know by this time next year." Li Yao smiled mysteriously at Chen Baojia.

"Sister-in-law, just tell me, you know that I can't hold back things in my heart." Chen Baojia begged, he was really curious about sister-in-law's intentions, and everything she did these days could bring everyone Surprised, Chen Baojia couldn't wait any longer.

"I'm afraid you won't understand me when I say it." Li Yao told the truth, even if she told him that her two lands were planted with CMS, maintainer and restorer rice, would he understand it?
"Sister-in-law, just talk about it." Chen Baojia said persistently.

Li Yao raised her head, and everyone in the room stared at her with thirsty eyes.In the past, Li Yao made brine, planted garlic seedlings, and garlic yellow. They were happy to see the results, but can this kind of rice produce anything new?This makes them very curious.

Li Yao pondered for a while and said, "I planted those two fields in preparation for planting hybrid rice next year. The yield of this hybrid rice will be much higher than the rice we planted before."

"Siblings, what is hybrid rice?" Hong Daniu asked, they had never heard of such hybrid rice in the entire Dayu Kingdom.

Li Yao was thinking about how to simply explain the CMS, maintainer and restorer lines of the rice to everyone.

Li Yao thought for a moment, and said: "This hybrid rice is produced by crossing different rice varieties. But this rice is a self-pollinating plant, which means that when each rice flower blooms, it has its own male and female pollen. It needs foreign pollen to mate to produce rice ears. Do you understand me when I say this?" Li Yao raised her head and glanced at everyone.

"Cough!" Chen Shizhu coughed, and knocked on the table a few times with his cigarette stick, while Chen Huangshi was also looking at his daughter-in-law with a sad face.

"Sister-in-law, you continue." Chen Bao seemed to understand.
"However, if we want to grow hybrid rice, we must find a way to make this rice mate with other varieties of rice, so I have bred the female parent of this rice, which is the rice with only the pistil pollen left. Because the female parent of rice is similar to our original rice, the first land I planted is this female parent of rice and our original rice, and the rice produced after the pollen of our rice is passed to the female parent, Let's call it Rice No. 1." Li Yao thought for a while and said that it might be easier for them to understand.

"The No. 1 rice we planted is also a rice with only pistil pollen left, and it must be pollinated outside to produce ears. The second plot I planted is to use the female parent of the rice and Brother Hong and the others. The rice seeds that come here are planted together. We will call the rice No. 2 when the rice is planted. This kind of rice has large and full grains. When the next season is planted, we will plant the No. 1 rice and the No. 2 rice together. In this way, the pollen is given to the No. 2 rice through the No. 1 rice, and the No. 3 rice is produced, which is the hybrid rice we want."

(End of this chapter)