Don’t think that bananas are nothing.
You must know that bananas have experienced countless major survival crises.
Today's bananas are all asexually reproduced. Their origins are the small-fruited wild banana and the wild banana, both of which come from southeastern Asia.
These two wild plants also produce bananas, but they have large, hard seeds and a very bad taste. The edible banana varieties that are widely cultivated by humans today come from continuous improvements by humans.
Banana is one of the fruits with a long history of human cultivation. my country had a history of cultivating bananas 2,000 years ago. ,
After long-term improvement, most of the banana varieties we can eat today are triploid. Compared with their diploid wild ancestors, in addition to having a more attractive appearance, more importantly, there is no Without seeds, the taste is smoother and sweeter.
Although triploid bananas can produce fruit, they are highly male and female sterile and cannot produce seeds normally, let alone reproduce the next generation. The various bananas in the world today can only be reproduced through asexual reproduction. In other words, all banana cultivars with commercial value are improved crops obtained by humans through vegetative propagation and then planted in the world.
After generations of vegetative propagation, bananas have become more delicious, but none of the banana varieties currently planted on a large scale is highly resistant to diseases, especially fungal diseases, which are completely irresistible.
Black leaf spot is a devastating fungal disease that once caused a 50% reduction in banana production worldwide. In the last century, it caused a delicious main banana variety, the Grand Michel, to disappear from the world. From then on, only legend.
The Cavendish banana that everyone eats now is just a second-rate banana, but even this second-rate banana is extinct in the Paradise. Not only the banana is extinct, but also the small-fruited wild banana and the wild banana.
Zhuo Qun and the scientific research boss didn't know this. When they arranged the negotiation venue, they placed a lot of fruit plates for everyone to eat. Among them are bananas, but they are not the current Cavendish bananas, but the Song Jiao, a new banana variety cultivated from the banana varieties of the Northern Song Dynasty. According to Qian Ying, who has eaten the Grand Michel, the Song Jiao is as sweet and soft as the Big Michel is worse.
Because of this sentence, this kind of banana has become a species specially eaten by Zhuxia's high-level officials. It has always only appeared in state banquets and various high-end venues. It is rarely seen by the public. The reason is not that Zhuxia does not want to promote it. And it was precisely because Zhu Xia wanted to promote it that it became something that high-level officials specially consumed.
You have to know this situation. There is a word in Zhuxia called tribute.
In ancient times, tribute was a carnival for the emperors and a disaster for the people. But now, there is no emperor in the Xia Dynasty, but there is another word for special tribute.
In fact, these special offerings are not easily available in the market, but those rich people who hope that they are different from ordinary people will buy such things, euphemistically calling it: this is an attitude towards life. In fact, most people are paying IQ tax and face tax.
However, one thing you cannot deny is that if this kind of new thing is thrown into the market without any background, no one will recognize it. No matter how good the quality is, no one will recognize it. But once you give this thing a special offer If it has a good reputation, it will definitely occupy the market in a very short time.
This is how Song banana was promoted. In the early days, Zhuo Qun only saw on the Internet that stripe virus appeared in bananas around the world. Some experts said it might cause the extinction of existing banana varieties, so he hurriedly ate some banana varieties from the Northern Song Dynasty. Shocked.
Then he thought of bringing the banana varieties from the Northern Song Dynasty to modern cultivation. Wouldn't that be enough?
However, Zhuo Qun couldn't find seeds from those bananas after searching for a long time, so he went to check the banana planting technology, and then he went to the Druids team who researched bananas at the Capital Agricultural College, hoping that they could help him plant them. banana.
Although the druids were not as good as the great druids in terms of skill and status, let alone the high druid priest, the druids still had their arrogance.
Faced with Zhuo Qun's request, the druids were unmoved and said that they all pursued ideals and would not bow to capital, and that such low-level things as planting bananas could be found casually. Just some banana farmers will do.
Then when Zhuo Qun asked someone to carry a box over, he even said that they couldn't be bribed with such a box of stuff.
But when Zhuo Qun took out the banana varieties from the Northern Song Dynasty, several druids immediately swooped over and snatched away the bananas.
After that, they left Zhuo Qun and the bodyguard team brought by Zhuo Qun where they were, and ran towards the laboratory carrying the bananas.
Only Zhuo Qun, who was at a loss, stayed there.
Why didn't you act aloof just now?
Why are they all robbers now, just rob and run away?
Zhuo Qun didn't understand what these bananas represented. New banana species, banana species that had never appeared before. For these banana druids, this was the biggest temptation. It was equivalent to holding a brand new wild rice. Appearing in front of the Druid High Priest is almost the same.
Then that night, these druids invited Zhuo Qun to the hotel and asked about the origin of the banana seeds. They no longer mentioned anything about character.
Zhuo Qun picked out dozens of druids from the Agricultural College, all of whom were of good quality, and used them to cultivate Song Jiao.
After that, Songjiao became a special offering and began to be promoted in the market.
In the eyes of druids across the country, Zhuo Qun has become a somewhat novel person, instead of the rich man who dug up half-finished druids before.
The well-informed druids came to the base of the Third Import and Export Company under the leadership of the high priest.
And in the Northern Song Dynasty world, Zhuo Qun thought that the Northern Song Dynasty world was a place that provided food. In order to obtain food, Zhuo Qun prepared to eliminate all the original crops in the Northern Song Dynasty and replace them with high-yield crops brought by himself.
The great druids denounced Zhuo Qun's prodigal behavior as soon as they arrived. In their opinion, these crops from the Northern Song Dynasty were also useful and could be used for hybrid experiments with modern crops.
You must know that the hybridization experiments of modern crops are coming to an end. This does not mean that there is no end to hybridization of crops, but that almost all the crops that can be hybridized around the world have been cross-breeding. Now it is already difficult to find new parents. It's impossible, and there are still many crops in the Northern Song Dynasty that can be used for hybrid experiments.
Not only that, there are also many crops that are original species that have not been cultivated. These are also excellent parent selections.
For these materials, all the well-known great druids in the country signed confidentiality agreements with their teams one by one. Only the high priest Druid was excluded. His reputation was too great for Zhuo Qun to arrange. , Not to mention Zhuo Qun is not easy to arrange, even No. 1 and others are not easy to arrange.
So we can only send him out.
However, those druid teams, large and small, are no worse than the high priests in terms of ability. This can be seen from the Song Jiao they provided.
They offer not just a single banana, but several other high-yielding crops.
And these hybrid crops have become the weight of the trade between Zhu Xia and Elysium. The temptation of high-yielding crops to Zhu Xia is as eternal as the land.
For these crops, Zhu Xia in Elysium gave modern Zhu Xia a planet-level landing spacecraft and 20,000 Iron Overlords, as well as supporting replacement energy sources, in exchange for not only hybrid species, but also their parents. All of them are needed, and they must be of a type that can be cultivated.
Of course, modern Zhu Xia agreed, but he put forward one condition: no secret doors or surveillance.
