Hehe, if you like it, it's fine. The conditions here are quite difficult, so if there are any difficulties, we will do our best to solve them. Wu Hao said with a smile. Hearing Wu Hao's words, Zheng Kaixiang on the side also said: "Xiao Yang, the opportunity is rare, if there is any difficulty, say it quickly, otherwise Mr. Wu will have no chance if he leaves." ”

Hehehehe...... Hearing Zheng Kaixiang's words, everyone laughed

Yang Fang also smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wu, I really have a difficulty and want to trouble you." ”

Tell me, let me listen? Wu Hao said with a smile.

Yang Fang said with a smile: "That's the case, we need a large experimental site, and this experimental site should be able to be around here for us to plant some experimental plants." ”

Wu Hao nodded when he heard this and asked, "How old do you want to be?" ”

Let's have a hundred acres first! Yang Fang said with a smile.

Wu Hao smiled when he heard this: "Yes, the tone is not small." Okay, I'll help you out. ”

Thank you, Mr. Wu. Yang Fang smiled and said excitedly.

Wu Hao shook his head with a smile and said, "Now you can introduce me to the project you are studying, I didn't listen to anything, so I lost a hundred acres of land." ”

Hehe, after a chuckle, Yang Fang smiled at them and introduced: "Our project is mainly engaged in the cultivation and research of drought-tolerant plants, mainly hoping to cultivate some plants suitable for growing in desert and arid areas through transgenic and gene editing and other technical means, such as herbaceous plants, woody plants, lianas, etc.

The desertification area in our country is about 3 million square kilometers, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the total land area, and the situation is very serious.

These desertification areas are mainly concentrated in the northwest and northern regions, of which the northwest occupies the largest area, and basically more than 80% of the entire northwest region is such desert areas.

You have learned about the dangers of desertification in junior high school geography, so I will not trace it. Let me just say that it is the source of poverty in the Northwest and the biggest environmental problem facing our country.

Including the sandstorm that sweeps the entire north every spring, and the smog that entrenches most of the country every winter, it is actually related to this.

Therefore, if we can solve the problem of desertification, it is equivalent to solving many problems at once, from poverty alleviation and people's livelihood, to the natural environment, social problems, to animal and plant protection, biodiversity and so on. ”

"Although our country has made remarkable achievements in desertification control, the situation is still grim.

We analyzed the dust weather, temperature, and precipitation in the entire northwest region over the years, and found that the rainfall line from the east was actually moving backwards, and the rainfall continued to decrease in some areas, and the dust weather increased significantly.

In recent years, much more hot and dry weather has been recorded than before, indicating that the dry climate in the entire northwest is still intensifying.

Of course, this may have something to do with the global semi-warm environment, but it is also inseparable from the overuse of natural resources by human beings. In particular, the use of large amounts of water for agricultural cultivation and animal husbandry has led to the disappearance of many oases and exacerbated the arid climate in the region.

In such an environment, although we have succeeded in local desertification control, we still cannot reverse the desertification situation in the northwest.

If this traditional desertification control is to be relied on alone, even if it is useful, it will take a slow process, 100, 200 years, or even longer.

So we are wondering if we can use the current biotechnology to accelerate the process of desertification control.

For example, drought-tolerant plants that are more drought-tolerant and have a higher survival rate are cultivated, or fast-growing plants that grow fast to take care of sand.

For example, moso bamboo, which is the fastest growing plant in the world, is also a native plant in our country. It is able to grow from a small bamboo shoot tip that has not yet broken the ground to a new bamboo 20 meters tall in two months, which is definitely an incredible growth rate.

Secondly, the root system of moso bamboo is very developed, and the root system is thick and powerful, which can go deep into the ground for tens of meters to absorb water and nutrients.

And because of the developed root system, the propagation rate is very fast, and a single moso bamboo can breed a bamboo forest in a few years.

Finally, there is the economic value, for example, bamboo shoots can be used for food, and bamboo is very environmentally friendly and is widely used in various fields. ”

But bamboo is from the south, and it likes moist and fertile land, how can this hairy desert survive. Zou Xiaodong didn't believe it.

Hehe, that's what we're going to do now. Yang Fang said with a smile: "At present, we have two main directions for the desertification transplantation and cultivation of moso bamboo.

The first direction is to take moso bamboo as the main body, and then add some genetic parts of desert drought-tolerant plants to it, and then transplant moso bamboo directly into the desert for planting, and finally cultivate moso bamboo varieties suitable for desert growth.

Second, extract the fast-growing genes in moso bamboo, and then put them into some drought-tolerant plants, so that these drought-tolerant plants have the same growth rate as moso bamboo. ”

Hearing Yang Fang's introduction, Zou Xiaodong and Shen Ning both felt that it was a bit fantastical, and they felt that this was impossible.

Wu Hao was better, he nodded and asked with a smile: "Very good idea, now it's in that part." ”

I've just taken the first step, and it's still early to succeed. You know, the biological sciences are slow, and even if we have greenhouses where we can control the temperature at will, it takes a process for plants to grow, so it takes a long time to see results. Yang Fang explained to Wu Hao.

Wu Hao shook his head with a smile when he heard this: "Don't be in a hurry in this regard, according to your rhythm, I believe that this project will definitely make a big difference." ”

After getting Wu Hao's affirmation, Yang Fang was also happy, and then smiled at Wu Hao and introduced: "Actually, there are many such ideas.

For example, our other big experimental target, corn. Corn itself is a drought-tolerant crop, and it also grows very fast, and the plant is relatively tall and the root system is relatively complex, and it is widely cultivated in the Northwest Territories.

Now our domestic consumption of corn is not only limited to corn itself, but more derived products from corn.

For example, we are now the world's largest consumer of corn and soybeans, and our corn consumers are mainly in farming.

By raising some livestock and poultry in exchange for meat and eggs, which are the most popular among our people.

In addition to corn grain, corn straw is also a very good feed, and even now many areas have begun to turn to corn as green fodder.

We now want to breed drought-tolerant maize that can grow in this desert, so that we can control the desert and at the same time obtain higher economic output. ”