The potato seeds equipped with Chinese manned spacecraft Shenzhou No. 16 will enter the test planting stage.
According to Xinhua News Agency on Sunday (January 14), the "space potato seeds" equipped with Shenzhou XIII and 66,500 real seeds in the 20 combinations of the Hersen series, in Ulanchabu, Ulanchabu, Inner Mongolia Autonomous RegionCity Shangdu County opened the box.
The potato seeds taken by Shenzhou No. 16 passed through the space for more than 180 days of space. After returning to the ground, the Chinese National Potato Engineering Technology Research Center was delivered to the Shangdu Coto Technology Innovation Center to carry out the next test plantingAnd subsequent evaluation and appraisal.
Zhang Linhai, director of the Shangdu Potato Technology Innovation Center, introduced that aerospace breeding is becoming an important way to create new quality resources.In the next step, these "space potato seeds" will be germinated, seedlings, and transplanting, and will continue to identify new potato varieties.
It is reported that the selection will use the current cutting -edge gene editing technology to assist the traditional genetic breeding method to edit the potato genome in a highly accurate way to accelerate the improvement of improvement and improvement.The cycle has been greatly shortened to several years.
