Chapter 301 297. Wenying's Pea
The next day, Luo Yihang picked up Qi Ruomu and went to visit Professor Du together.

Professor Du lives in the staff quarters of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, right on the road to the academy.

It's a very old community, the houses are a bit dense, and the greenery is average, but it's quite quiet and well managed.

It's a bit like finding peace in a hustle and bustle.

This is rare in the imperial capital.

Professor Du lives on the third floor of a six-story building. The area is quite large, about 100 square meters.

The decoration is also nice.

Qi Ruomu secretly said that this was all thanks to the master's wife, as Old Du didn't care about anything at home and acted like a big boss.

There is no green plant in this house.

Qi Ruomu said again that their family didn’t have any, and they saw too many of them in the fields. They didn’t want to see them again when they got home, as they would feel upset if they saw them.

"Alas, we are all workers. We don't want to work at home..."

"What are you two talking about?" Professor Du poured out some water and saw the two boys whispering on the sofa. "I'll have lunch with my family. Your wife is out buying groceries."

"Let's talk about the gift I brought you." Qi Ruomu stood up with a chuckle, took the cup of water, and winked at Luo Yihang.

Luo Yihang curled his lips at him, meaning that he really missed the target.

Then he reached out, picked up a cardboard box from the ground and put it on the coffee table.

"What else do you need to bring? I have everything I need." Professor Du's face fell.

Luo Yihang smiled slightly, "You will definitely like this."

As he spoke, he opened the cardboard box, revealing a foam box inside. He opened it again, revealing a bunch of tender green sprouts.

There's an ice pack on it, and it's still cooling.

The ice pack was just replaced this morning.

Professor Du reached out and grabbed a handful, took a look and said, "Is this, pea sprouts?"

"To be precise, it's a new variety of pea sprouts cultivated by Senior Sister Wenying. And it was cultivated by Xiao Luo. It's a variety cultivated purely for the sprouts." Qi Ruomu rushed to introduce it, focusing on Senior Sister Wenying.

"Oh!" Professor Du immediately became interested. He took the pea tip in front of his eyes and looked at it over and over again. He asked excitedly, "When did you start cultivating it? What stage is it at?"

"It started last year, last summer." Qi Ruomu answered quickly, but he was not sure which step.

Luo Yihang continued: "I heard from Shi Juan that she is now F3, and will soon be F4."

The so-called F refers to the offspring.

Professor Du frowned. "It's already the fourth generation in half a year? Can it be so fast?"

Luo Yihang replied, "I don't know the details either. I heard from Shi Juan that they used the speed breeding technology that comes with smart agriculture, controlled the environment to produce multiple crops a year, and used high-throughput cultivation to accelerate screening, as well as the single seed transfer (SSD) rapid circulation method. By the way, the main thing is that Wenying's gene family markers are clear, and Changqing Biotechnology has brought molecular marker-assisted selection. Combined with the basic tissue culture method, the iteration is very fast."

"Of course, the most important thing is that the most difficult F1 generation is already cultivated by Wenying. That's why it can be so fast."

Qi Ruomu's meaning was almost welded on his face. Luo Yihang had to assist him and highlight Wenying.

In fact, the most important thing is Wenying.

Luo Yihang didn't understand any of this and just read from the phone.

Before coming here, Qi Ruomu asked Shi Juan to give a summary.

It is also required to be accurate, professional, and easy to understand.

When making the request, Shi Juan almost scolded Qi Rumu to death.

Professor Du sighed and rubbed his forehead after listening to this, "Alas, technology is so advanced now."

Luo Yihang can rest assured, it turns out that Professor Du didn't understand it either. It's understandable, for someone who has been studying soil all his life, let him learn about breeding, it's interdisciplinary.

But Qi Ruomu didn't let his teacher go, and he kept talking to the people beside him, "This is called breeding 4.0, it's really amazing. A few years ago, didn't Senior Sister Wenying create a tomato that was very disease-resistant but didn't produce fruit? This is also a seven-episode series, and she has marked out all the genes that cause fruit failure. This time we can just follow the map and save ourselves a lot of trouble."

That's right, Wenying is definitely the first core. All the things Luo Yihang said before are based on Wenying's research.

"That's not right. They are from different disciplines, so are the gene sequences the same?" Qi Ruomu's words were too vague, giving Professor Du a loophole.

"This..." Qi Ruomu didn't understand either and looked at Luo Yihang again.

Luo Yihang quickly took out his cell phone and continued flipping through the pages.

Hey, it really exists.

Shi Juan is a girl who works with all her heart.

"It is said that the E2-E3 enzyme pair is ubiquitin-proteasome. The DA2 gene encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase, which cooperates with another ubiquitin receptor DA1, and then finds the parental origin (paternal or maternal) through imprinted genes and selectively expresses genes..."

Finished.

What is this? Luo Yihang stuttered when he read it.

Professor Du also rubbed his forehead and said, "Forget it, forget it. I don't understand. How is the effect?"

Speaking of this, Luo Yihang became excited, as he finally reached the part he could understand.

"The effect is very good. Under normal conditions, the growth cycle is 7 days, and the young shoots can be cut every 10 to 10 days, and can be cut 12 to times in a row. The yield is incredible."

"Because we don't want it to grow peas, it can't grow them, so the planting conditions are much more tolerant. We don't have to focus on the 1 to 2 degree time for sowing, and we don't have to worry about whether the high temperature will cause the flowers to fall during the flowering period. The soil requirements are low, and it doesn't matter whether the soil is acidic or not. The light time requirement is also low, and insufficient light is insufficient."

"Except for water, fertilizer, pests and diseases, which remain the same as before, all other conditions related to flowering and fruiting have been relaxed. We can even use less phosphorus fertilizer. Since we don't want it to bloom and fruit anyway, it doesn't matter if we use less phosphorus fertilizer."

Luo Yihang kept talking and making Professor Du happier and happier.

He even joked, "The price is that beans won't grow anymore."

"Your summary is very correct." Luo Yihang gave a thumbs up, "It is now a leafy vegetable of the leguminous family."

"Let's eat it at noon." Qi Ruomu suggested, pointing to a box of peas.

"Okay, let's try it." Professor Du was also curious. This suggestion touched his heart. "How to cook it? Just stir-fry it."

"No, no, no, this is the staple food. I won't cook rice for lunch."

In the imperial capital, steamed rice is called stewed rice. Qi Ruomu wanted to tease Professor Du.

However, Professor Du has traveled all over the country, and he understood it immediately. "Let's make noodles, right? The way to eat it in Sichuan and Chongqing is, what is it called, pea noodles..."
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After a while, Professor Du's wife came back.

Greeting, courtesy, hello.

We were all family, so the four of us worked together to make lunch.

Mrs. Du was the chef. She cooked shrimps, stewed meat, fried fish, made tofu, and stir-fried two dishes, one was Mu Shu pork, and the other was scrambled eggs with leeks.

It’s a pure northern specialty. Except for the cucumber in the Mu Shu Pork, it doesn’t have any green at all.

Professor Du made a cold dish of bean curd and black fungus.

Qi Ruomu doesn't know anything and is just there to help.

Luo Yihang showed off his skills and used peas to stir-fry some noodles in the soup.

There are more vegetables and less noodles, a bowl of emerald green.

If this bowl of noodles were sold in Sichuan and Chongqing, everyone would praise him as a spendthrift.

(End of this chapter)