Chapter 1908: Genetic Research on Crops that Is Nothing to Ask for (Please Vote for Me)

Grete basically knows nothing about agriculture.

He knew that production could be increased by improving agricultural tools, water conservancy, planting methods, breeding, fertilizers and compost... As for how much production can be increased, he is relatively confused:

"Probably... can it grow by 10%? Or 20%?"

This number is clearly insufficient. Gretel knew without calculation that in industrial society, the urban population exceeded the rural population, or at least was equal to the rural population.

If we say that at present, about two-thirds or even three-quarters of the population make a living from farming, to upgrade to an industrial society, agricultural productivity must at least double.

If you include spellcasters, warriors, and all kinds of monsters raised, there is a huge demand for meat, monster meat, and magic plants. Doubling the productivity may not be enough. Doubling the farmland must be cultivated, and the output of meat must also be at least Double...

Gretel did not know that in the world he came from, Britain had firmly entered the industrial society through these non-supernatural means alone.

In other words, there is no need for him to conduct research at all. As long as there is an organizer who is determined enough and a group of leaders who are enlightened enough, agricultural productivity can be improved to a sufficient level through long-term efforts.

If only he knew...

If he knew, he wouldn't interfere!

Grete thought on his knees that it would be impossible for him to promote agricultural tools, water conservancy, and planting methods. Not to mention, improving these gadgets and improving productivity will inevitably lead to huge changes in production relations.

To stimulate the improvement of production relations related to the improvement of agricultural technology, if it can be given extraordinary professional feedback, the promotion from an agricultural society to an industrial society may be enough to turn a small farmer into a legend!

Where does Gretel have that New World time?

The kind of work that involves coordinating the work of the royal family, nobles, and other extraordinary forces, as well as farmers, homesteaders, and tenant farmers, regulates food price fluctuations, absorbs the labor force squeezed out by agricultural production, and at the same time does not cause huge social turmoil... …

Firstly, he is not good at this kind of work. Secondly, even if he is good at it, it will take fifty years or a hundred years. Whoever wants to do it should do it. Grete himself can just bury himself in the laboratory!

On the operating table in front of him, a row of test tubes were laid out leisurely. Each test tube is thick and strong, at least 500 ml, and contains more than half of the wheat seeds.

There are small labels on the walls of the test tubes. From Hampshire, from Suffolk, from Herdfordshire... common wheat, high yield wheat, multi-ear wheat, multi-grain wheat, lodging resistant wheat, pest resistant wheat...

Grete took a deep breath, turned around and walked out. Behind him, the lids of the test tubes jumped up automatically one by one. A few wheat grains flew out of each test tube and were spread flat on the floating saucer.

At the same time, a ray of light was also cast from the top of the laboratory, writing on the record book. Make a copy of each label and affix it to the corresponding location on the floating dish.

Gretel walked out with his hands empty-handed and walked to the specially flattened greenhouse land. With a flick of his finger, all the wheat seeds flew up and fell into the soil.

Grete just stood still, the power of nature filled his body, and naturally buds sprouted from the soil, rising up from the ground and growing vigorously. Tillering, jointing, heading, filling, maturing, and producing full-grained golden wheat...

Then, the invisible servants swarmed up, sorted the wheat into different categories, measured the height of the wheat, counted the number of wheat ears, the number of wheat grains, weighed... took the soil, measured the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium content in the soil, and compared it with the previous values...

Gretel just wanted to see the wheat with his own eyes and feel their properties.

Seeing is believing. Only after seeing it for yourself can you know whether the wheat is tall or short, whether it is thick or thin, whether it has six ears or eight ears, how many grains of wheat are in each ear, and how big each grain of wheat is...

As for cold resistance, salt-alkali resistance, resistance to diseases and insect pests, etc., they cannot be seen with the naked eye, and must be studied carefully.

However, having seen this was enough. Grete returned to the laboratory and, with a single order, retrieved the chromosome maps and comparative data of these wheat species. After looking around for a long time, he screamed:

"Why are there so many differences..."

How many chromosome points are there in wheat?

There are so many, so many. In a tiny grain of wheat, or to be more specific, in the germ part of the wheat, there are so many 42 chromosomes crowded in the nucleus...

This thing is hexaploid!

Hexaploid!

If Grete's team hadn't had experience in studying dragon genes, they would have stopped wanting to do it when they saw this huge mass.

At present, we are working steadily, processing these wheat grains one by one, scanning them one by one with a microscope, and comparing them one by one with Taling analysis. If you find a difference, mark the difference...

Obviously, the differences in the chromosomes of the wheat grains that Grete now masters have exceeded the scope of what he could imagine. In the same multi-ear wheat, the difference between chromosome points is not three to five, nor ten or eight...

Moreover, Gretel's previous research on dragon chromosomes was a coincidence. There were dragon-born creatures that had undergone dragon genetic modification as a comparison.

What is placed in front of Gretel now is all ordinary wheat, not even magic plants, and there is no special spell fluctuation at all.

Which point means growing stronger, which point means growing more ears, which point makes it grow taller, which point makes the plant dwarf...

Grete had no clue, not even a template to compare with!

Not to mention, there is a high probability that one point contains seventeen or eighty, or even seventy or eighty DNA fragments, and who knows how many sequences composed of certain purine and certain pyrimidine.

In the group that my senior sister led before, there was a branch that specialized in studying the atomic sequence of chromosomes. It's just that this task is too difficult, and no satisfactory results have been obtained yet.

If we expect them, we might as well rely on ourselves and work hard...

Grete let out a long sigh and grabbed a handful of wheat seeds labeled "multi-ear wheat". Count out one grain, bury it in the soil, input the power of nature, and start to recite silently:

"A certain chromosome, a specific point is removed, and then it grows, germinates, blooms and bears fruit rapidly..."

Uh, no response. It seems that after cutting off a certain point, the seeds cannot grow...

Okay, one more. This time, when Gretel input the power of nature, he changed his mind:

"A certain chromosome, a specific point does not work, and then grows rapidly..."

Uh, still no response. So, if this point does not work, the wheat may still not grow?

Another way...

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The paper the cat read shows that in Britain, from the second half of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century, wheat yield per acre increased by 79%...