"Mai Ke" waving the "chip"

A few days ago, in the test demonstration base of the National Wheat Improvement Center of Gaobeidian City, a group of "wheat guests" wielded the sickle and were busy harvest. Compared with the scenes of the traditional harvesting of decades ago, compared with today's large -scale joint harvesting machines, it not only looks very rare and different, but also evokes the childhood memory of the previous age.

This group of people is not an ordinary worker. They are the scientific research team of Hebei Breeding expert Zumao Tang and the farm of the villages nearby. Although it is a traditional harvesting method, the wheat fields here are not the same as ordinary wheat fields. More than 30 acres of large and small places are large and small, and more than 100 new varieties are cultivated, and the small area is less than 1 square meter. They are all precious germplasm resources and are well -deserved "agricultural chips." In the past, when the traditional harvested wheat, the sickle should be close to the ground and left a very low stubble. The harvested wheat first tied the ground and then passed through the despair and grinding surface to eventually embark on people's dining tables. In the experimental demonstration base, the "wheat guests" wrapped the sickle almost only the ears of the wheat; After the deches, we must also be weighed, loaded into the bowl to observe and determine the quality, and finally decide whether to continue the test or elimination. If the appraisal is continued, it will "sit" on the plane to Hainan in October this year to play a new task of breeding in Canada. It can be seen that the same is the harvest of the sickle, but the "fate" of "agricultural chip" is very different.

Zumao Tang, who had been in the road of breeding for nearly 40 years, has successively cultivated four new wheat varieties and "Komo D722", "Zhongmai 122", "Komo 53", "Komo 60", "Komo 63". New corn variety. Recently, it is the critical period of the pollination of corn. Zumao Tang and workers shuttle in the corn field every day for pollination work. Time tasks are heavy. However, the most worried about Zumao Tang is the process of planting. Because of the insufficient manpower, this year, the process of planting work is a lot of backlogs. These will affect the subsequent breeding of corn and wheat this year. Even so, Zumaotang still takes time to see the corn produced from Hainan every day. If these corn passed the test, it is not far from breeding. His biggest wish is to build a food foundation with excellent varieties and stabilize Chinese rice bowls with technological power.

(Guangming Daily All -Media Reporter Cui Xingyi)

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