Chapter 2387 Moving Plants

All of them are like this, let alone Shen Ning and several others. A small white mouse was born so casually, which made Shen Ning and the others feel a little scared.

As for Yang Fang, she took off her gloves with a smile, threw them into a yellow medical trash can next to her, squeezed some hand sanitizer to wash her hands, and wiped them after using them.

After finishing all this, she smiled and said to everyone: "Get used to it, everyone. Don't be surprised. This little white mouse has completed its mission. Next, we will send it to the laboratory for dissection and observe its internal organs. Penetration of toxins.

In the end, the bodies of these mice and the medical waste will all enter the incinerator, be treated harmlessly and then buried in deep pits, so as to prevent these wastes from polluting the outside environment. "

Wu Hao glanced at Shen Ning and the others who were still a little scared, and then smiled at Yang Fang and asked, "Tell me about this flytrap, why did you breed such a dangerous species? It's going to be leaked." Proliferation will have a serious impact on the entire natural ecosystem, and even destroy the biological chain ecosystem in some places."

"Hehe, it's pure experimental exploration. Don't worry, these plants cannot be leaked without permission. We have two main purposes for cultivating this flytrap. First of all, we want to find traps Some of the controllers in the Venus flytrap respond to movement genes. The Venus flytrap should be regarded as a relatively rare type of active plant in the world. We hope to extract these genes that control the movement of plants, and then implant them into other plants. Some plants, so that these plants also have functions similar to flytrap.

To give a simple example, we want to cultivate a flower that will bloom quickly when people approach or touch it. Then after a while, it puts itself away and waits to be touched next time.

We intend to extract the gene that controls the blooming of this kind of flower when it is touched. The leaves of the mimosa will quickly become sensitive when touched by the outside world, and we plan to implant this gene into flowers.

This is not done for novelty, and it's not all about looking good, in fact it has great application value.

For example, in this desert, the pollination of plants and fruit reproduction has always been a big problem. Because there are relatively few insects in desert areas, it is very unfavorable for pollen transmission. Compared with some areas with more insects, the pollination time in desert areas is much longer.

However, due to the harsh natural conditions in the desert area, high temperature, drought, and wind and sand. These flowers may have been dried up by high temperature and drought before they were pollinated, or they were shriveled by wind and sand.

And if we implant the mimosa gene into these plants. Then the flowers of these plants can be directly retracted when they are affected by high temperature or external force. Or in other words, only when bees and insects stop on the flowers, the flowers will bloom, which is convenient for bees and other insects to pollinate.

Similarly, the gene of this flytrap is actually similar to that of mimosa, and we also hope to find the genes that control the motility of the plant by comparing the genes in these motile plants. "

After listening to Yang Fang's explanation, everyone finally understood. I didn't expect that such a dangerous and disgusting plant can be used in this way, and the gene extracted from such a plant is injected into the flower, so that people can touch it and bloom. This is amazing. Thinking of this, everyone's fear, shock, and nausea disappeared, and they couldn't help but yearn for the future of this kind of fantasy of touching and blooming flowers.

As for Wu Hao, he nodded with a slight smile and said, "Continue!"

yes! Yang Fang responded, and then went on to introduce: "In addition, we also hope to cultivate a special job for catching rats, and plant them in some areas where the rats are more serious.

For example, there were news reports a few days ago that a grassland in the Mongolian region was seriously infested with rats, resulting in the destruction of a large number of grasslands and heavy losses for herdsmen. Conventional mouse-hunting and extermination without bad words is difficult to do.

Chemical poisons can easily pollute the environment and cause damage to the ecological chain. So experts are also very troubled about how to eliminate the rat infestation.

If we have our mousetrap, then we can plant in these grasslands with serious rodent infestation, which can greatly curb the rodent infestation. More importantly, this is a biological mouse trapping method that will not pollute the environment or affect other animals and people. It is very safe, efficient and cheap. "

Hearing Yang Fang's words, Wu Hao couldn't help but frowned and looked at her and asked: "It's a good idea, but is it really feasible? Let's not talk about other things, just say that this plant is safe? Once it is like other invasive plants In that way, it will be a huge disaster for the ecological environment of these areas if it grows and spreads wildly on the grassland.

It can catch mice, which means it can hunt some small animals, such as rabbits, hedgehogs, minks, foxes, including some birds, which are the main components of the ecological circle.

In addition, is its gene stable? If it is unstable, it will also pollute some surrounding grassland plants, causing a serious ecological crisis. "

Hearing Wu Hao's words, Yang Fang smiled and replied: "First of all, let's answer your second question first. Regarding the question you are worried about, we are still in the process of observing and experimenting, and we have not yet obtained accurate experimental results. .

However, judging from the current series of observation experiments, its genes are relatively stable, and there will be no problems in the area of ​​genetic expansion and genetic pollution~lightnovelpub.net~Of course, this is just the current result, and everything will be fine The final experimental test results are the main ones.

Then there is the first question. Your concern is not unreasonable, and this is what we have always paid more attention to. For this reason, we have also done a lot of work, trying to minimize this threat, or directly erase it.

In order to prevent this kind of plant from spreading and rampant, the simplest and most direct problem is to eliminate its reproductive ability, so that it cannot bear fruit, or the fruit it bears cannot mature or germinate.

In addition, we need to require that the branches and leaves of this mousetrap do not have the ability to be cut again. Whether it is natural reasons that cause these plants to break and insert into the land, or human reasons, and catalyze them, they cannot take root and germinate.

In this way, it can greatly prevent the wild spread of this mousetrap after it terminates. "

After hearing what Yang Fang said, Shen Ning, who was standing behind Wu Hao, couldn't help asking: "There is no fruit, and cuttings cannot be used, so how can this kind of plant reproduce?"

"Hehe, it's very simple, laboratory cultivation." Yang Fang replied with a smile: "Just like orchid cultivation, we only need to take out a bud embryo from the plant, and then put it into the medium for cultivation, and wait until it grows up. , and then removed for cultivation.”

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