Chapter 239 Radu: I have a bold idea

Chapter 239 Radu: I have a bold idea

"Don't be impatient, proceed at a normal pace. Where is your experimental report? I want to see your previous research process. Have you counted how many kinds of plants your 'Jia Rang's Benefit' can affect?"

Harold asked slowly.

In Blue Star, ethephon, a drug that can be used to artificially regulate the sex of plants, also has limitations. In most cases, it can only work on melon plants, such as cucumbers and cantaloupes.

Harold wasn't sure if it would work on the flower, but he was willing to let Radu try.

Although this may cause him to lose dozens of young lilies, at 3 million per lily (referring to the price of artificially bred lilies offered by Dolly), the loss is likely to be hundreds of millions.

But research is bound to cost money. Because he has invested in some large projects, he is indeed very poor now, but he can still come up with this little bit of money.

Radu: “Yes, I have experimented with gourds, cucumbers, pumpkins, spice fruit, peppers, wheat, rice, sweet potatoes, etc., including monoecious and dioecious plants.

I found that 'Jia Rang Zhi Hui' has a certain effect on promoting female sex in gourds, cucumbers, spice fruits, peppers and other plants with different male and female flowers.

In melon plants such as cucumbers and pumpkins, it has a clear dual effect of inducing females and inhibiting males.

In my experiment, I selected 50 cucumber seedlings, 50 pumpkin seedlings, etc. After spraying them with "Jia Rang Zhi Hui" during their "bisexual period", the appearance rate of female flowers reached 98%. The only exception was a cucumber flower that ended up blooming into a bisexual flower, which rarely appears under normal circumstances—"

"Wait! After using your 'Benefit of Jiarang', there won't be any deceptive flowers of both sexes, right?" Dixia couldn't help asking.

Radu paused and said uncertainly: "It shouldn't be. This is my conclusion based on the gender of the flower, but I have no theoretical or practical basis, so I can't be sure...

The authoritative literature of the current life theory school divides the sex of plants into seven categories. The known hermaphroditic plants account for 78%, while the hermaphroditic plants account for only 7%...

According to the teacher's research results, the lily flower has only male and female species, which means that the lily flower, like the date palm, is a rare dioecious plant.

Its female and male flowers grow on different plants. What I just said, 'the juvenile lily is in the bisexual stage' is actually the most ideal situation. It may not have a 'bisexual stage'. So do you think 'Jia Rang Zhi Hui' can adjust the gender of the lily, Ms. Dixia?"

"Me? You're asking me?" Dixia was startled when her name was suddenly called. She pointed at herself woodenly with a look of disbelief.

Your instructor is right next to you, why don't you ask him but me?!

She was listening carefully at first, but she fainted after one minute. Two minutes later, she gave up on saving herself and began to daydream. She felt as if she had returned to the day when she had just signed the agreement with Harold.

The only difference is that at that time she didn't even know what the proper nouns Radu mentioned were, but now she knows about "monosexual plants", "separate flowers", "seven sexes of flowers"...

But it's still useless, I still can't understand it at all when I put it together.

"...Yeah, if you ask me, I'll say 'yes'. You just asked Haroldt to use your juvenile form to trick the flowers, so it must be possible, right? You know it's not allowed, but you still ask, aren't you asking for trouble?"

Dishia scratched her hair and replied.

"Yes, you guessed it right. My answer is yes!" Radu said excitedly, "Because two hundred years ago, a life-theorist named Sotale carefully studied the flower sex differentiation of dioecious plants.

She found that the gender stability of dioecious plants varies from plant species to plant species. Karma trees and enlightenment trees are of the gender-stable type.

That is to say, their sex is determined by genetics, and there are obvious male-female differences under natural selection. It is rare to see plant types such as monoecious flowers or hermaphroditic flowers. We can easily judge their sex through leaves, flowers, fruits, etc.

So, Ms. Dixia, do you think the lily of the valley is a dioecious plant?"

Radu looked at Dishiya.

"Ah? Are you asking me again?" Dixia paused for two seconds and said uncertainly, "...Forget it."

“Yes, but no. Senior Sotara later discovered that among dioecious plants, in addition to those with stable genders, there are also those with unstable genders!

For example, date palms and melon trees are dioecious most of the time, but their gender is easily affected by external conditions such as temperature, light cycle, and soil nutrients.

So in addition to female and male plants, there are also a small number of hermaphroditic plants. These plants often have small differences between male and female.

In his paper, Professor Sotale called this type of dioecious plant "not strictly dioecious plant" and created a new classification for them - "sub-dioecious plant"!

As for the Pian Pian Flower, it is obviously more inclined to be a "sub-dioecious plant", but its characteristics do not completely conform to the characteristics of sub-dioecious plants summarized by Mr. Setalei, and it cannot even be classified into the existing plant genders.

If I succeed in using the "Grace of Jiarang" to control their gender, I should be able to apply to the Council of the Church to modify Senior Sotare's paper and include plants with this characteristic in the category of "sub-dioecious plants", or to create another category parallel to "sub-dioecious plants".

But considering that the liarflower is not simply a plant, the academic community previously tended to classify it as an elemental organism. The Faithful Court may not approve this application unless I can find another case, which I think I should be able to find..."

Radu was talking with saliva flying all over the place, and Dishiya looked like she had lost all hope in life. At this moment, she really wanted to shout, "Master, stop reading!" Harold listened with great interest, with the corners of his mouth rising from time to time.

Radu talked for a while, until his tongue became numb, then he stopped and looked at Haroldt, waiting for his mentor's evaluation.

Harold smiled and clapped his hands twice. "Very good. Did you write down everything you just said in the experiment record book?"

"Yes, I have thought about it many times these days and collected a lot of information about this type of plants, but due to time constraints, I didn't have time to cultivate these plants myself." Radu breathed a sigh of relief and said nervously.

Harold praised him, and then said, "Keep this information well. All of these are S-level or higher papers, as well as the 'sexual period' of plants that you mentioned earlier.

This concept has not been proposed by other scholars before. You can write a paper to explain this concept. Well...if you can clearly write the significance of discovering this concept, this paper should also be able to reach S level. "

Radu suddenly realized that he hadn't thought about writing a paper for a long time.

Before becoming Harold's student, he always hoped that his research would be recognized by all parties. After his papers were rejected many times, he participated in the public publicity activities of the Council of the Faith, just to let himself enter the public eye, so that he would have the motivation to continue his research and get funding from the top leaders of the Council of the Faith.

But after becoming Haroldt's student, he had obtained the research materials and precious research data he wanted, and even received Haroldt's guidance. He had no intention of promoting his work at all.

He even felt that the courses at the Ordinance House were of little use to him, and spending extra time attending those courses would only waste his precious time.

"Teacher, I would like to put your name on these papers to thank you for your guidance." Radu looked at Harold and said seriously.

This was the most valuable thing he could offer at the moment. He had always disliked the unspoken rules between mentors and students in the academy, but this time he felt that he had to do so. Without Harold's help, he alone might not have been able to take this step.

"That's not necessary." Harold refused immediately.

Under my name? What a joke! If I write a few more papers, I will become a sage. Don't try to ruin my peaceful life with that 007 job.

Radu didn't expect Harold to refuse so straightforwardly. After two seconds of silence, he said anxiously, "But, a teacher's contribution cannot be achieved by just leaving a name in the 'mentor' column—"

"You publish these papers," Harold interrupted him, then said in a slower tone,

"After you are recognized by the academic community, wise people will pay more attention to our team, and we will also be able to get more investment. As your mentor, the benefits I get are no less than those of being the author of the paper.

And no matter what the reason is, it is a very shameful act to let students write papers for you. I hope you remember this. If you choose to be a tutor in the Faculty of Teaching in the future, don't forget what I said today. "

Radu was speechless for a long time after listening to this. It was only when Dishia poked him that he lowered his head and whispered, moved and ashamed: "...Sorry, teacher, I remember it."