"Among these seeds, I feel that these few are of better quality, especially this one. I can feel its bursting vitality."
To this end, the Agricultural Research Institute replaced all its security personnel with more professional ones, and China also prepared a completely new resume for his new identity.
Jiang Yan brought a team of six people with him to the Agricultural Research Institute. The other five people each had their own secret identities. On the surface, they were researchers in Jiang Yan's team, but in secret, they served Jiang Yan.
It's not just about makeup; it also includes blood tests, physical examinations, and reporting Jiang Yan's latest feelings back to the Bureau of Investigation and Investigation.
After the emergence of Magic Coin, and especially after the confirmation of artificial magical brains, China established a special Bureau for the Investigation of Abnormal Phenomena, which is fully responsible for matters related to magic.
(Please don't mind the name of this organization; it was just randomly chosen because I thought it sounded nice.)
"Are you sure?" Dong Wenxu, the researcher in charge of mass gene mutation of soybean seeds, was full of doubts.
This new researcher is too arrogant. He picked up the seeds, glanced at them, and immediately determined that these seeds were of better quality.
This batch of seeds was induced to mutate by Dong Wenxu through batch treatment using X-rays combined with chemical mutagenesis reagents.
Unlike the most popular approach in agricultural research today, which focuses on known mutants and works on the gene segments containing those mutants.
By using radioactive probes to identify gene fragments associated with mutants of known function, and then using targeted mutagenesis or hybridization to induce further changes in these gene fragments.
Since the functional modules associated with this gene fragment are known, the control experiment only needs to be designed specifically for it.
However, after the arrival of the new researcher Jiang Yan, Dong Wenxu was directly transferred to Jiang Yan's team, which he was not very willing to do.
Although Jiang Yan graduated from prestigious universities, he has no published papers. As a research student, isn't it a complete rip-off that the team leader hasn't published any papers?
The institute's explanation is that Jiang Yan had been engaged in secret scientific research work, and was recently transferred to their research institute because of his advanced age, so he has not published any papers.
What Dong Wenxu found even more unbearable was that Jiang Yan asked him to use the traditional radiation method to process the seeds of major crops such as wheat, rice, barley, and soybeans in large quantities.
After Dong Wenxu finished processing the seeds, Jiang Yan would pick them up and look at them for a long time, then close his eyes from time to time, and then tell him which seeds to plant.
I knew from the beginning that it was unreliable, but I didn’t expect it to be this unreliable. Selecting seeds was like drawing lots.
Every day, they would induce the seeds to form. Jiang Yan would select the seeds, and then he and several other researchers would plant them in the soil at the agricultural research institute.
Dong Wenxu had no idea when this would end. Under this person in charge, he had no hope of publishing papers, and he didn't know if he could find a teaching position at a regular university, let alone a 211 university.
Originally, Dong Wenxu came to the Institute of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a postdoctoral researcher with the intention of publishing more papers and striving to get into a 211 university to start as an associate professor. "It seems that my life is going to be bleak," Dong Wenxu thought to himself.
"Teacher Jiang, isn't our method a bit too random?" Dong Wenxu couldn't help but remind her tactfully.
Jiang Yan didn't care. As someone who had faced life and death, Shennong, who had already dedicated himself to the country, couldn't and shouldn't explain it to him.
Could it be that I have a magical mind that can sense which seed has a stronger life force?
Jiang Yan had no choice but to say, "Please trust me, and you can only trust me. If these seeds do not exhibit any superior characteristics, I will allow you to be transferred to another group."
Dong Wenxu was also carefully selected. He is calm and steady, not good at speaking, has no overseas study experience, and his family has gone through political vetting for three generations before he could join Jiang Yan's group.
Dong Wenxu himself was unaware of how lucky he was to have made it into this group.
Upon hearing Jiang Yan's words, Dong Wenxu had no choice but to agree.
After Dong Wenxu left, Jiang Yan continued his studies. Since he had changed his focus and now covered all major crops, he still had a lot to catch up on.
After injecting the standard demon brain, Jiang Yan was surprised to find that he could sense the quality of living beings. It was just a feeling; he could sense which seed was better among the same seeds.
After discovering and confirming that Jiang Yan did indeed possess this ability, he was transferred to the Institute of Agriculture at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"I hope you will continue to make outstanding contributions to China's agricultural self-sufficiency and major crop security, so that we can be independent of overseas and leave more profits for our vast number of farmers."
"Mission accomplished!"
The location has changed, and the job content has changed, but what remains unchanged is the original aspiration: the determination and belief to make a small contribution to China's agriculture.
China is a populous country with a huge demand for food, but it relies heavily on imports for seeds.
China feeds 20% of the world's population with only 7% of the world's farmland. To achieve this feat, China's use of chemical fertilizers has tripled in the past 30 years, with an average efficiency of 32%, compared to the world average of 55%.
China relies on imports for 80 percent of its soybean imports, with imports increasing from 300,000 tons in 1995 to 95 million tons in 2017, accounting for two-thirds of the world's soybean trading market.
(The above data comes from the "Chinese Agricultural Yearbook" published by the Ministry of Agriculture of China, 1982-2017)
China relies heavily on imported seeds. In 2018, China imported more than 72 million kilograms of crop seeds, with an import value of 475 million US dollars.
Jiang Yan was able to come to the agricultural institute without having to stay at the secret base, precisely because of this environment.
After finishing his workday, Jiang Yan got up and brought up the page of the magic forum, where only Merlin's post was displayed alone.
He was filled with questions he wanted to ask Merlin: What exactly was the Demon Brain? And why did the injection of the Demon Brain grant him this ability?
Is this ability a form of technology or magic?
Furthermore, could this ability evolve to more accurately detect what makes a good seed good?
These problems were like a cat scratching an itch for him; they were unresolved and would keep swirling in his mind.
When I'm working, I can only force myself not to think about it.
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