Huishi Investment Group's research and development center in the northeast planting base is built on the base of the ruins, and covers an area of ​​about 10,000 square meters. But in fact, the building area is quite large. The twenty-storey high-rise buildings have basically been put into use, and there are about a thousand technicians and experts working in it.

"You actually have such a big research center?" Cui Qi said with some emotion.

Although it has always been known that Fan Wubing has done a lot of business, and he has been to the headquarters in Beijing and Shanghai, he never thought that there would be such a large-scale planting base and research center in the northeast. Zhang Qi couldn't help but sigh in her heart, saying that behind successful people there are always a lot of hard work that others can't see.

"That is, just use it." Fan Wuyi didn't say anything.

After everyone went in together. On the top floor of the research center building, this is also the location of the general control center of the entire base. Generally speaking, all important tasks are distributed from here.

"What is your main research direction? You need so many people?" Zhang Qi asked curiously.

Fan Wuyao replied, "The main issue is food safety. You know, the issue of genetically modified food is a bit hotter now. We mainly do some work from this aspect.

"Genetically modified food? Zhang Qi nodded, saying that she had heard of some.

In order to improve the nutritional value of agricultural products. Produce food faster and more efficiently. Scientists apply genetic modification methods to change the genetic information of organisms and assemble new genes, so that future crops will have high nutrition, storage resistance, resistance to diseases and insects and herbicides, and continue to produce New genetically modified food.

There are many plant-based genetically modified foods. For example, the production of bread requires high-protein wheat, while the current wheat varieties contain low protein. Transforming the highly expressed protein gene into wheat will make the bread made with better baking performance.

Another example is the tomato is a kind of fruit and vegetable with rich nutrition and high economic value, but it is not durable for storage.

In order to solve the storage problem of tomatoes such as fruits, the researchers found that the enzyme gene that controls the ethylene synthesis of the plant senescence hormone is an important gene leading to plant senescence. If the expression of this gene can be inhibited by genetic engineering, then the senescence hormone yifeng The biosynthesis of the tomato will be controlled, and the tomato will not become soft and rot easily.

Through hard work, many scientists in the United States, Little China and other countries have bred such new tomato varieties, which are anti-aging, anti-softening, storage-resistant, can be transported over long distances, and can reduce waste in processing, production and transportation.

There are also many types of animal-based transgenic foods. For example, human genes are transferred into cattle. The milk produced by cows when they grow up contains genetic drugs, which can be used for the treatment of human diseases after being extracted. The human auxin gene is transferred into the pig genome, the growth rate of the pig has doubled, and the quality of pork has been greatly improved. Now such pork has been brought to the table in Australia.

Genetically modified food is a product created by the use of new technology, and it is also a new thing. People naturally have questions about the safety of eating genetically modified food.

In fact, the first person who raised this question publicly was Professor Pupitel of the Aberdeen Roth Institute in the United Kingdom. In his research the year before last, he found that when young rats eat genetically modified potatoes, their internal organs and anti-fatigue system will be damaged.

This has caused great concern in the scientific community. The Royal Society immediately reviewed the report and announced in May last year that the study was full of loopholes.

But also last year, the authoritative British scientific journal "Nature" published a paper by Professor John Rossi of Cornell University in the United States. It is pointed out that beneficial insects such as butterfly larvae in the field will stunt when they eat vegetable leaves sprinkled with a certain kind of genetically modified corn pollen, and the mortality rate is extremely high. At present, there are some evidences pointing out the potential dangers of genetically modified food.

However, more experiments by scientists have shown that genetically modified foods are safe. Scientists who agree with this view believe that any genetically modified food has undergone a large number of scientific experiments before it goes on the market. The country and the government have relevant laws and regulations to restrict them, and scientists They also have a very rigorous academic attitude. In addition, farmers will use pesticides to ensure the quality of traditional crops when they are planted, and some genetically modified foods that are resistant to pests and diseases do not need to be sprayed with pesticides. In addition, whether a food will cause poisoning mainly depends on whether it has receptors in the human body and whether it can be metabolized. The transformed genes have been screened and their effects have been clear. Therefore, genetically modified ingredients will not accumulate in the human body and will not be harmful.

"As far as I know, this technology is the world's top subject. Does your research center have such capabilities?" Although it seems impolite to ask, Zuiqi still expresses considerable suspicion. Fan Wubing laughed, "Although we started relatively late, we have been conducting research on related projects three years ago. We have also made some achievements."

The Fan Investment Group’s research on genetically modified projects is mainly carried out from two aspects. One is that Fan Wubing himself does not trust the safety performance of genetically modified foods. Food is the main ingredient, but Fan Wubing also considers that once the national legislation opens the door to genetically modified food, he must also have the corresponding technology.

Scientific demonstration of genetically modified food. It has been entangled in foreign countries since the 1980s. A large number of scientifically proved that genetically modified food is indeed harmful to humans and has carcinogenic substances. Because the consequences of genetic modification of crops cannot be controlled, it was first with dairy cows. In the United States, genetically modified milk has emerged. The so-called genetically modified cows are going to milk and hope to produce hormones, and cows injected with hormones can increase milk production, which can increase milk production by about 30%, but the average life expectancy of cows is also It will be reduced by two years, and dairy cows frequently suffer from breast cancer and other diseases.

This kind of genetically modified cow was invented by Monsanto in the United States. The average Chinese at Monsanto didn’t seem to know much about it. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military believed that it was fighting against jungle guerrillas and spreading poison every day, causing large forests to die. This medicine is The medicine developed by Monsanto is actually a herbicide, called nanji.

The harm and impact of agent orange is very far-reaching. For decades, no grass grows in those places.

Monsanto is also a veteran company with the same name as DuPont and Dow Chemical. The foundation supporting genetically modified technology is a foundation under Rockefeller. The institutions involved in research and development include Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical, etc. Monsanto has already A joint venture has been established in China, and the new cotton tassel, a popular cotton species across the country, is jointly developed and developed by this company.

Monsanto’s main goal now is to control China’s seed production companies. Even India’s largest hybrid seed company has established a joint venture with Monsanto. As for DuPont, there is no need to introduce more. People on the earth know that many people in DuPont’s Pioneer Seed Company do not necessarily know. Pioneer Seed’s seeds are the leader in the corn seed industry, and the Northeast is China’s largest grain production base. In the entire Northeast market, Pioneer Seed's corn seeds accounted for more than half of the market share. To buy American seeds, farmers in the Northeast had to pay the company an advance payment, and the price was high, more than ten times higher than the domestic seed price.

The reason why there is such a big gap is that the corn output of Pioneer Seed Industry is 20 to 30 percent higher than the average level, and the survival rate is basically 100 percent.

Domestic corn seeds need to be planted with three to four seeds in a nest, while the Americans need to plant a nest with each seed. The yield has been increased, and the efficiency has been improved. The effects of disease resistance, flood resistance and drought resistance are also very good. The reason for this advantage is that this magical seed is a genetically modified corn seed.

Some industry experts say that the female parent of this American variety comes from China. This is not impossible, because the American pioneer company visited China a long time ago and picked several Chinese wild soybeans at the airport. The purity of the soybeans is the highest in the world. After taking the soybeans back, they relied on this sample to change its genes and cultivated new varieties. Its high oil content and high disease resistance quickly conquered the world market. The American soybeans produced glutinous rice. 37% of the entire grain export. And China is the world's second largest soybean importer. This kind of soybean is also a genetically modified soybean launched by its company. The Chinese products were improved by the United States, and then they were dumped in China using high government subsidies. In contrast, Chinese soybeans are not only expensive, but also of poor quality. , Is not an opponent of US soybeans at all.

At present, many domestic seed companies cannot compete with foreign seed companies because of their survival crisis. Therefore, one after another is cooperating with Western powers. Chinese seed companies do not have advanced technology, and the actual control rights are in the hands of foreign companies. In other words, most of the food we eat and most of the oil we eat are actually Americans. In control. Therefore, some people have said that the real power to control our food, clothing, housing and transportation does not come from the government, nor from the market ~lightnovelpub.net~ but from Wall Street in the United States. After Fan Wubing briefly introduced the current seed market situation to Zhang Qi, he said to her, "In addition to the above-mentioned bulk grain seed market, the vegetable seed market is also a world of foreign brands. Foreign brands account for half of the country. The above share, of which tomato, eggplant, cucumber seeds, and spicy board seeds are all foreign brands. For example, the Dutch Britta eggplant seeds can be sold for more than 100 yuan per gram, and the eggplant seeds of domestic enterprises can also be sold per gram. No matter if it is cucumber, tomato, eggplant or other seeds, as long as the seeds are sold by foreign brands, they can be sold at sky-high prices, which can be compared with the price of gold."

Shen Manhua also told Zhang Qi, “Most of the vegetable seeds come from Europe. There are no genetically modified ingredients and they are ordinary hybrids. They can be eaten with confidence, but for the West, especially the United States-based powers, Gong has broken the Chinese seed and grain market. Not simple. Once the food war is started, the overwhelming advantage may be manifested, but whether it is for gaining power or other things, the purpose of using genetically modified food crops for food is even colder, and genetically modified seeds will cause long-lasting effects on the land. Genetic pollution. It will affect the properties of plants, and some effects after eating may be latent in the human body for a long time. It will cause serious damage to the immune system.

"Our research center is private and open to the outside world. In fact, we want to clarify one thing. Does the harm of genetically modified crops exist and how much influence? And if there is no harm, then we too We must have the ability to provide a large amount of domestically produced seeds to resist the invasion of foreign seeds." Fan Wubing said to Zhang Qi.

"You are really respectable" Zhang Qi said very seriously after listening.