Chapter 118 Hybridization Experiment of the Fraud Flower

Chapter 118 Hybridization Experiment of the Fraud Flower

On Wednesday, in Harold's laboratory, Dishia held her breath and stretched her finger to a pinch of pollen in a petri dish.

Her fingertips still condensed an extremely weak fire element, so weak that it only made the tip of her nail slightly red, as if the slightest breeze could blow it out.

But her hands did not tremble at all. Instead, they pointed at the laboratory table at a constant speed and stopped when they were only 0.3 millimeters away from the pollen. She allowed the elemental force at her fingertips to become softer and thinner, allowing it to wrap around the particles of powder like a veil.

One second, two seconds...

A drop of sweat slid from Dishia's forehead to the tip of her nose, making her feel a little itchy, but she didn't dare to reach out to wipe it, nor did she dare to shake her head to speed up the dripping. She was afraid that the breeze caused by these small movements would make all her efforts go to waste.

...half a minute.

The pollen wrapped in elemental force did not explode. Does this mean that she has finally figured out the critical value for elemental reactions and the generation of elemental force attributes?

Dixia didn't dare to relax at all, fearing that the calm pollen in front of her would explode in another second. Similar things had happened several times in the past few days. Although she intuitively felt that she had succeeded this time, she still didn't dare to rely on luck.

She turned her head slightly and cast a consulting look at Harold beside her.

Haroldt had a feeling that the first phase of the experiment would be successful, so he did not deal with other chores while Dixia was conducting the experiment for the past two days, but stood aside and observed quietly.

Being watched by Dishia, he shook his head slightly, indicating to wait for a while.

Another thirty seconds passed, and the pollen in the petri dish still did not mutate, but the attached fire elemental power showed slight signs of weakening, like a fire without combustible materials.

It's a bit too far-fetched to expect the elemental force to be preserved permanently after it leaves the releaser. Maybe I should buy another small elemental force storage device and install it in the head of the mother plant of the Deception Flower.

I don’t know if foreign matter entering the brain will affect the fusion of gametes and cause the experiment to fail. The prank flowers are intelligent elemental plant life forms and cannot be treated completely as plants.

Harold closed his eyes and roughly compared the two plans. He knew that it would be more feasible to start the next step of the experiment as soon as possible, so he said softly, "Okay."

He quickly took out the inactivated fire-attribute pollen of the Deceptive Flower that he had prepared in advance, mixed it with the pollen processed by Dixia in a ratio of one to three, and then walked quickly to the compartment where the mother plant was with the culture dish.

He skillfully called out the mother plants of the fire-attribute flower one by one, tied them up on the laboratory table, cut the receptacles, used a brush to apply a small amount of pollen on the stigma, then sewed them up, bagged them, and wrote the date and pollination time.

The processed pollen was not enough to pollinate all sixteen female plants (there were twenty-one female plants in total, and five female plants were retained for other hybridization experiments). After pollinating the fifth flower, Harold turned to Dishia and said, "Ms. Dishia, please process some more pollen using the method just now."

Only then did Dixia feel relieved. Watching Harold's experiment, she was more nervous than Harold himself. When Harold was operating, she followed him within three meters without saying a word.

But when Harold began to pollinate the mother plant, her eyes were completely attracted by Harold's skillful movements and the internal structure of the liar flower. She couldn't help but imagine the feeling of cutting the liar flower receptacle with a scalpel, and imagined what she would do if she was the one doing it.

Harold suddenly spoke to her, and she was stunned for a second before quickly replying, "Okay, I'll do it right away!"

After saying that, she couldn't help but ask again: "Is this the pollination completed? Is our experiment successful?"

"You asked me the same question a week ago, Miss Dixia," Harold said with a smile, "I said at that time that attaching elemental power to pollen is only the first step.

However, what I said at that time was rather general, and you may not have taken it to heart. Now our experiment has officially entered the second phase, and I will tell you in detail about the experimental content of this phase.

In fact, it is very simple. The elemental power and quantity contained in the pollen we use now may not be optimal.

Next, we will adjust the treatment of pollen according to the condition of the fruit of the flower, the number of seeds, and whether it can produce offspring with the excellent characteristics of the parents. "

Compared with the Blue Planet, except for the part involving elemental force, other processes are indeed simplified a lot. The individual differences of the Pian Pian Flowers are very small. Except for the exception of Xiao Shiba, who has a high IQ, there is almost no need to screen the maternal and paternal plants.

Harold paused and continued, “We may encounter problems such as fruit deformities, low seed yields, and rapid death of hybrid offspring, so this stage may be prolonged.

After the goal of this stage is completed, I will select the excellent hybrid plants. Well... I expect that they will be more beautiful in appearance, less aggressive, produce more and sweeter honey, and have a more unique taste. After that, it will be a matter of arranging variety comparison experiments and regional trials, and promoting the excellent hybrid offspring to various places. "

After a week of hard study, Dixia roughly understood what Harold wanted to express. She nodded, full of curiosity about the offspring of the two types of deceitful flowers.

What kind of offspring will be produced by the hybridization of the thunder-attribute Prankster and the fire-attribute Prankster?

She had asked Haroldt about this question last week. According to Haroldt, there is maternal-biased inheritance in the plant world, and the shape of the offspring will be more similar to the mother, but the deceitful flower is not a pure plant, so their offspring have infinite possibilities.

Out of curiosity, Dixia continued to attach fire elements to the pollen of the thunder-attributed deception flower, helping Harold to complete the pollination of sixteen female plants. With this successful experience, her subsequent operations became easy and the pollen did not explode again.

After completing all these tasks, only two hours had passed, but the experimental materials had been used up ahead of time, so Harold told Dixia that today's work would end early.

But I didn't expect that Dixia, who used to ride her pack animal to the residential area after work or practice sword outside, would ask to stay overnight today.

"Please provide me with accommodation and dinner. I'm curious about the condition of these deceiving flowers and want to stay and take a look." As Dixia said this, she glanced at the sixteen bagged mother plants out of the corner of her eye.

She learned from Haroldt about the state of the mother plants after successful pollination, and even saw the detailed photos taken by Haroldt with his camera, but she still wanted to see with her own eyes what changes would occur to the mother plants that were pollinated by her own hands.

"Okay." Haroldt immediately used rock elements to rub a stone bed for her, then took out some unused pack animal skins and cloth and gave them to Dixia.

Harold: "You will sleep here tonight. Make your own bed."

Dixia quickly made her bed, and Harold pointed her in the direction of the kitchen.

"We'll have bread and tea in the evening. If you need meat or other staple food, I'll provide you with the ingredients and kitchen utensils, and you can cook it yourself."

Harold briefly introduced the various living areas in the institute to Dixia, and then used the communication device to tell Kavi that he would not return to Xumi City tonight, and he also needed to stay to observe and record the situation of the mother copy.

Two days later, Harold asked Dixia to try to attach fire elemental power to the pollen of the ice-attribute flower, and Dixia fell into a cycle of failure again.

Fortunately, the reaction between the ice and fire elements would not cause an explosion, so she would not break the petri dish again. However, she had to add the task of cleaning the petri dish after the experiment.

Every two hours every day, Harold would use a small flashlight powered by elemental force to illuminate the paper bag, observe the condition of the mother plant through the light, and record it in his experimental notes.

By the third day, the large quantities of high-quality sweet potatoes and mints ordered by Harold were delivered to the laboratory by Dolly's fleet. Harold kept them in a well-lit room, collected pollen and preserved it.

The flowering period of sweet flowers and mint is fixed from July to September, but Xumi has a warm climate, so their flowering time is generally advanced to May and June, and the flowering period will be shorter. Now it is November, and most of the flowers have withered. No matter how carefully Dolly selects, there are few plants in full bloom among the batch of plants she sent.

The pollen at this stage will become inactivated faster. Haroldt placed the remaining pollen into an incubator with regret and set the temperature to 4 degrees Celsius. According to the research papers of predecessors at Amyrido College, this temperature can better preserve the vitality of the pollen in the short term.