Chapter 644: The Life of Big Potato
Potatoes with macroglossia do more than just grow big.

There are many other impacts as well.

For example, it tastes bad.

Because the sugar organic matter produced by photosynthesis is converted into starch in the warehouse, there is no raw material for amino acid synthesis, and the accumulated flavor substances are very few.

There are not even many amino acids, let alone proteins formed by amino acids, which are as few as bicycles in the ocean.

So there are neither amino acids nor protein in this potato, only some vitamins and minerals left, and the rest is just starch and water.

When you put it in your mouth, it's all starch.

The starch structure of this starch is different from that of wide vermicelli.

Of course it tastes bad.

After understanding these.

Wenying decided to increase the dosage.

Breeding 4.0 was launched, supercomputing was launched, gene-phenotype-environment big data was launched, and the isolation group/hybrid combination model was launched.

The first batch screened out 129 combinations.

After finding samples from agricultural science academies, agricultural universities, and research institutes across the country for hybridization.

Then use the high-throughput cultivation acceleration technology of smart agriculture to cultivate all 129 species and press the fast-forward button.

As for the cost, electricity bills are rising rapidly.

Alas, the supercomputers and experimental consumables mentioned above are really expensive. This electricity bill is nothing in comparison.

In addition, relying on the powerful special bacterial community in the soil, the characteristics of these new varieties of potatoes are very obvious during the growth process, and they will be eliminated quickly when they grow to average size.

After a very quick screening, 31 species remained.

This batch of potatoes, based on the original big potatoes, was marked with transcription factors GLKs, which redistributed photosynthetic products to the growth points of the plants, enhancing the growth rate and biomass accumulation of the big potatoes.

The efficiency of photosynthesis is greatly enhanced, and with the same area of ​​leaves and time, more organic matter such as sugars can be synthesized.

This is the F1 generation.

After further analysis and simulation, various strange inductions and irradiations were used, and 54 combinations were created. After repeating the previous process, 9 were left.

During this period, high light efficiency characteristics were added to the potatoes to improve their ability to absorb carbon dioxide, increase the rate of photosynthesis and expand the range of light.

The previous one was a modified distribution, and this time it is open source, which can accelerate photosynthesis and allow photosynthesis to be carried out even in weak light.

This is the F2 generation.

Then repeat it again, and it goes from 9 to 4.

During this period, 74-128 was used to increase the growth rate of large potatoes, as well as to advance the growth and expansion of potatoes.

This is the F3 generation.

Qin Qiuyan had already done most of the work on this big potato, and it was almost finalized by F3.

The three candidate species are all similar, so just take them all out for trial planting in the wild to see the results.

As a result, Wenying went to Hainan and took on Qi Ruomu's job to grow salt-tolerant ice grass.

The study also found the water-salt joint stress characteristics of wheatgrass.

Plant roots absorb water by relying on the difference in salt concentration between the body and the outside of the body.

Soil with high salt concentration will cause water to seep out from the plant roots, which is why most plants cannot survive in saline-alkali land.

Salt-tolerant ice grass improves internal and external balance by regulating ion concentration in the body through metabolism.

After some directional induction, Wenying successfully added this characteristic to the big potato.

Enhance the water absorption capacity of the roots of large potatoes.

And select the one with the best performance.

This is the F4 generation.

At this point, the light, water, and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis were all present, plus Qin Qiuyan had solved the "gigantism".

Finally, we bred a variety that grows fast, has high yield and is super tall.

The starch content is so exaggerated that it may break the record accidentally.

There is nothing else besides these.

A super big potato with extremely serious academic bias...
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After Wenying finished speaking.

Luo Yihang was fine, but Chu Jie and Xiao Zhao were stunned.

Xiao Zhao opened his mouth wide, and was stunned for a long time before he exclaimed, "Is it so magical? In my concept, to cultivate new varieties, you have to work hard in the fields, and after several months of harvesting, you look at it and say, oh, this one is good, oh, this one is not good. Then you do it again and again, just like opening a blind box."

Luo Yihang's contemptuous look appeared again.

He was the one who wrote the copy promoting Breeding 4.0, but I don’t remember it at all.

But, Qin Qiuyan, who had been sitting in the corner without any reaction, why did you nod?

"Yanzi, do you have anything to say?" Seeing that she had been acting invisible, Luo Yihang finally responded and quickly asked.

"Well, well..." Qin Qiuyan was a little nervous as it was her first time attending such a meeting. After trying for a long time, she finally got it right. "I was just doing what Sister Zhao said, opening a blind box. I was about to give up after failing."

"I heard that you cried when you first came here, Yanzi." Xiao Zhao, who was not careful with his words, realized that something was wrong after he said it, and quickly made amends, "I said you cried because you were moved. We are so powerful here, you must be shocked."

Qin Qiuyan had a very good temper. She shook her head and said, "I was just sad and aggrieved. I cried several times afterwards, but I was moved and thankful that I didn't give up. I was moved that breeding could be done this way... this way..."

She couldn't think of the words to describe it.

Chu Jie helpfully added: "It's like doing a puzzle."

Wen Ying looked at Qin Qiuyan and retorted: "The puzzle method is what you explained to ordinary people during your promotion. I am more used to calling it a design drawing..."

That's right.

The big potato is a designed crop.

It suddenly sounds a bit scary.

But in fact, since ancient times, breeding has been designed according to certain goals.

It must have high yield, good taste, no insects or diseases, grow fast and have no seeds.

However, with traditional breeding, we don’t know what will be produced, and we have to pick out from a pile of results.

Just like Xiao Zhao said, open the blind box.

Open a bunch of them and pick the ones you like.

Breeding 4.0 uses various high-tech means to carry out predictive and accurate breeding.

What does it mean to represent the future direction, what does it mean to be the only one in the world, what does it mean to be cutting-edge technology, and what does it mean to be second to none.

This is!
Tactical fallback.

Luo Yihang felt very proud.

Cultivating immortality and spiritual energy, combined with this thing, is truly amazing!
Seeing Chu Jie and Xiao Zhao again, they looked shocked, and the matter was settled.

They were both so frightened, let alone ordinary people, who would be so scared that their jaws would drop.
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Then Shi Juan talked about the planting characteristics of these big potatoes.

Because photosynthesis is greatly enhanced, and photosynthesis requires chlorophyll, a lot of nitrogen fertilizer is needed when growing these large potatoes, and fertilizer needs to be added several times during the period.

Photosynthesis requires water, so the amount of water required is also large. Fortunately, the synthetic starch will release water, so the total amount of water does not increase much, but it is unbalanced.

In addition, its disease and insect resistance are weak, and it needs frequent pest control and pesticide spraying.

It is very anti-weed. The covering effect of this thing is so strong that grass cannot grow.

All in all, it is a variety with high daily management and planting costs.

However, compared to its output, this is nothing.

(End of this chapter)