Nezha and Lei Zhenzi appeared on the academic journal, and the Hua Nong team revealed the mysteries of corn genes with the characters of "Fengshen Romance"

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan Client August 11 (Reporter Chen Xiaotong correspondent Liu Tao) Nezha, Lei Zhenzi, and Herhaji will appear on international academic journals? Recently, an online article in the international comprehensive academic journal "Nature · Communication" has attracted widespread attention. The well -known mythical characters, Nezha, Lei Zhenzi, and Humi Er will "face face". They are not mythical stories, but they have become the "spokesperson" of corn genes.

The international comprehensive academic journal "Nature · Communication" published the scientific research results of the Huaonon team online.

This is the research results of Professor Yan Jianbing's team of Huazhong Agricultural University. After many years of research, they revealed the genetic mysteries that led to the unidirectional hybridness of corn, and used the character relationship in the ancient Chinese mythology "Fengshen Romance" to show their image.

Yan Jianbing told the Yangtze River Daily reporter that corn is one of the most planting crops in my country, and it is also a natural fascinating crop with natural flowers. However, there is still a special variety in corn, which cannot accept other varieties of pollen insemination. This phenomenon was observed as early as 1902. After a hundred years, scientific researchers have never thoroughly analyzed the genetic mechanism of the site. Today, the Hua Nong team has finally drawn the triple genetic model behind it.

They used genome, transcription, and data from group genetics to identify seven genes in the target interval to determine the genes that may not be affectionate. "These three types of genes have different personalities and play with each other, and finally determine the unidirectional hybridness of corn."

In order to explain the relationship between these three types of genes, the team's "brain open", and proposed to express the relationship between the characters in ancient Chinese myths "Fengshen Romance". They use the "Nezha" to represent the ZMGA1PS-M gene with the strongest force value, which can break all obstacles. The role of the ZMPME3 gene is "Hummhar", which prevents the pollination tube from advancing. "Lei Zhenzi" represents ZMPRP3. The force value is not as good as "Nezha", not the highest level of war gods, but when ZMPME3 genes have a low amount of genes (just like "Huma Second General" only one) obstacle.

Lu Gang drawn the image of Nezha, Huma Er, and Lei Zhenzi, and explain the relationship between the three in English.

Lu Gang, a graduate student who is good at painting in the team, draws the genetic image of Nezha, Hhoda, and Lei Zhenzi, and explains the relationship between the three in English to publish it with the paper. He said: "We feel that the entire gene model is in line with the image, position and force comparison of the two generals of Nezha, Lei Zhenzi, and Huma, and modified many times and finally completed this work."

"This is a basic scientific research, which not only has theoretical significance to understand the major basic scientific issues of reproductive isolation of species, but also has application value for the genetic improvement of crops, especially hybrid species." Ancient mythology is the ingenuity of the team, hoping to add interest to the boring theoretical science, and also contribute to the spread of Chinese culture.

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