Jimu News reporter Chen Xi Li Hui
Correspondent Chen Changli Li Wenxuan
"Everyone knows that kiwifruit is cultivated from wild resources, but what about the ancestors of millet? It is the wild dog tail grass, and the most primitive watermelon is only the size of a thumb..." On September 23, in front of the National Kiwi Germplasm Resource Garden of the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers traced the source of food on the table to a group of primary school students, with the intention of arousing everyone to protect wild resources.
It is worth looking forward to the possibility that in the future, colorful kiwifruit and light-skinned kiwifruit may "jump" on your table.
Kiwi kiwifruit are of the same origin
Millet is derived from wild dog tail grass
"Cherry and cherry, pineapple and pineapple, kiwifruit and kiwi, are these pairs of fruits the same?" Yesterday morning, at the Science Popularization Activity of the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival jointly organized by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Hubei Province and the Wuhan Botanical Garden, Dr. David Li of the Kiwi Resources and Breeding Center threw out this familiar and confusing question to some students of Wuhan Shilipu Primary School.
Kids taste kiwifruit
"Same", "different", the children's answers are different. "These pairs of fruits are of the same origin." David Li said in detail, cherry and cherry is the same kind of different varieties, cherry is produced in the United States, Canada, Chile and other American countries with a large thick skin imported cherries, we generally say that small cherries are Chinese cherries, widely distributed in china; pineapple and pineapple, biologically the same species: pineapple, native to Brazil, because of different production areas, both appearance and interior are different; kiwi fruit and kiwi fruit are actually the same, belong to the kiwi family, kiwi fruit mainly refers to kiwi fruit imported from New Zealand, Its essence is derived from the Chinese kiwi fruit species.
"The kiwi fruit that everyone eats is domesticated from wild kiwifruit, watermelon and millet are also, watermelon originated in Africa, when it was only the size of a thumb, and the ancestor of millet was dog tail grass." David Li turned sharply and advocated that everyone love wild resources, otherwise it would be difficult for qiao women to cook without rice.
Dozens of wild resources are collected every year
Breeding high-quality kiwi fruit flat and low value
The large and large germplasm resource garden opened the eyes of primary school students.
David Li introduced that since the 1960s and 1970s, Wuhan Botanical Garden has continued to carry out the collection, preservation, evaluation and utilization of kiwi germplasm resources, and the garden has become the germplasm resource garden with the highest genetic diversity and rich genotype in the world, and has become an important kiwi fruit scientific research and variety breeding center in the world. The nursery preserves more than 1,040 resources of 66 species of kiwi plants (including varieties and variants), cultivates 120 cultivars (lines), and cultivates 44 new kiwi varieties. Currently, researchers collect dozens of wild resources from the wild each year.
Subsequently, the researchers tried to eat the red heart kiwi fruit (Donghong), "So sweet! The students smiled sweetly.
"Donghong is the crystallization of the breeding team's continuous optimization and breeding for more than ten years, and the red heart kiwi fruit that consumers like very much at present." David Li elaborated on its advantages: strong stress resistance, strong sweet and delicious flavor, extremely resistant to storage, is one of the world's best commercial traits of red heart kiwi varieties, won the Berlin Fruit and Vegetable Exhibition gold medal, planted in China nearly 300,000 acres.
Students visit the Kiwi Seed Cultivation Room
What are the standard identifications for breeding? The lab opens its doors to children. "First carry out quality evaluation and identification, and then plant in different places to see whether it is suitable for water and soil, adapt to different geographical climates, and finally apply for variety protection for industrialization promotion." David Lee said.
"Kiwi fruit is so expensive, what is the price of East Red Kiwi?" A student asked.
Students watched the lab teacher demonstrate seed analysis
"Donghong Kiwi is currently retailed at 2-4 yuan a piece." David Li said that our breeders select high-quality varieties, not only have good taste and high nutritional value, but also can produce abundant yields to help farmers increase their income, and at the same time, the public can also afford to consume, and everyone can eat happily and healthily.
In the laboratory, everyone was pleasantly surprised to see a kiwi fruit shaped like a date or a bunch of grapes, "Is this a kiwi fruit?" "Some students are puzzled.
"They're all wild kiwis." David Li explained that like the jujube kiwi fruit, the skin is smooth, called soft jujube, like the grape kiwi, called broad-leaved kiwi, called the kiwi fruit called maohua is easy to peel; the color of wild kiwi fruit is also green, yellow, red and purple color world.
Smooth skin wild soft date kiwi
Wild broad-leaved kiwi fruit shaped like a bunch of grapes
Furry skin, easy to peel wild hairy flower kiwifruit
It is based on the genes of these wild kiwifruit, David Li revealed that the skin is like a date's light skin kiwi, the grape-like kiwi, like a banana easy to peel the kiwi, is the direction of the scientific researchers' efforts, the future they or become a delicious taste on the tip of your tongue, bringing more surprises.
Wuhan Botanical Garden reminds everyone that we must protect wild resources, with the continuous development and maturity of technology, perhaps the grass and trees you see in the wild are the rare plant resources of our country, and the future may become a tricky food on your table.
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