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Therefore, from the beginning of the large-scale planting experiment in the natural environment, experts from relevant departments, research institutes, and universities have been here throughout the process. Participate in the entire cultivation and planting process to collect the most authentic testing data. Only in this way can we truly know whether this gene-edited and genetically modified bamboo variety will cause harm to the ecological environment.

If the experiment is successful and proves that this variety will not cause harm to the ecological environment, then this bamboo can be planted on a large scale.

According to its forest formation speed, it only takes a few years to form hundreds of thousands or even millions of acres of bamboo forest, which will play a huge role in windbreak and sand fixation in the northwest region.

Not only that, once a large-scale forest area is formed, it will have a huge impact on the local ecological environment and even the small-scale climate.

First of all, large-scale forest areas will play a role in wind protection and sand fixation, which will block the erosion of wind and sand and also inhibit the generation of wind and sand. Moreover, these bamboo forests can also improve the barrenness of the local desert soil. Rotten bamboo roots and fallen bamboo leaves are very good humus materials. They can improve the organic matter content in these barren soils, thereby making the soil fertile.

In addition, once a large-scale forest area is formed, the transpiration effect will affect the climate of a small region, making the arid climate humid, and even increasing regional rainfall.

Finally, large-scale forest areas will also attract various animals to live here, thereby improving the living environment of those animals, accelerating the reproduction of animal numbers, and thus restoring the ecosystem.

For those experts, the drought-tolerant bamboo variety is just an appetizer. We are more concerned about the plant transgene and gene editing technology. Transgenic technology is not new, but what is more strange or important to Xiaojia is plant gene editing technology.

In fact, Xiaojia is not familiar with gene editing technology in the past few years, but it has been accompanied by various controversial topics. The smallest of these are social and ethical issues.

Without it, you would have to cut down other trees to make paper, thus protecting the environment in a true sense.

We can't let potatoes grow smaller than sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes grow smaller than pumpkins, and pumpkins can be pulled on a small cart.

In addition, the root system genes of Populus euphratica were also edited to make its root system more developed and unable to play a worse role in sand fixation. And the stronger and more developed root system can also support the slow growth of the new variety of Populus euphratica.

The following imagination may not be realized in the future, but if it is now.

Logically speaking, Populus euphratica itself is not a plant that lives next door to the desert. Its tolerance to drought, barrenness, and salt and alkali are all basic, so what's so strange about it?

Even if the drought-tolerant bamboo itself has modified its genes to increase the chance of blooming, there is still no guarantee that it will bloom suddenly one day in the future. After all, you don’t know enough about the problem of bamboo flowering now, and you still haven’t figured out its related mechanisms, so it’s difficult to prevent it.

As for the new Populus euphratica in a bottle that adds the fast-growing gene of moso bamboo, its growth rate is very slow. Although its growth rate is not as slow as moso bamboo, it can still reach a growth rate of eight to seven meters per year. Basically, once a Populus euphratica is planted, it will not grow into a towering tree in eight to seven years.

You have even used that technology to lignify those crops, changing them from annual crops to juvenile woody crops, turning corn, barley, and rice into apple trees, which require repeated planting and only require degenerative management. , just pick according to the season.

In addition, fast-growing trees are very suitable for papermaking. On the one hand, they grow slowly, and on the other hand, they are cheap and easy to cultivate and plant, but they will have an impact on the natural environment.

So the experts are very interested in the research and application of that technology. In the opinion of experts, that technology cannot be said to be the key for humans to control small nature. Without that technology, we would be acting as emperors, changing little natural plants to our own needs.

Although Populus euphratica has tenacious vitality, it grows very quickly. In particular, the annual growth of Populus euphratica usually ranges from a few centimeters to more than ten centimeters.

And it is adapted to arid desert areas, and its economic foundation is relatively poor. Its low economic value can also drive local farmers to become rich and promote local economic development.

For example, in the field of crops, gene editing technology cannot be used to make wheat ears grow as small as corns and rice to grow as low as sorghum. It is truly impossible to realize the dream of enjoying the cool weather on the crops.

However, that new Populus euphratica variety has the fast-growing characteristics of bamboo added to its genes, which does not mean that it is a fast-growing Populus euphratica variety.

The first is not carbon neutrality. The carbon benefits generated by such a small forest area every year are very considerable. That is a huge amount of income. It can also achieve your country's carbon neutrality goal. It can be said that it is a small achievement with one stone.

It is not possible to give those crops the characteristics of other plants like the drought-resistant bamboo. For example, it has characteristics such as drought resistance, salt-alkali resistance, high temperature resistance, barrenness resistance, and pest resistance, thereby minimizing the increase in crop yields and completely solving the food crisis.

Populus euphratica is the same. It can adapt to the extreme local environment and has very weak resistance to pests and diseases. Moreover, the wood of Populus euphratica is soft and has certain economic value. It can increase local economic income. This is also very wrong.

Yes, that's only for animals and humans. In the field of plants, there are problems in that regard, or the problems are not so concerned.

Compared with the exotic varieties of bamboo, the local varieties of Populus euphratica are obviously more in line with the local ecological environment. Although bamboo is very soft, it is actually a herbaceous plant and is relatively difficult to be affected by pests and diseases.

In addition to that drought-tolerant bamboo variety, those experts are also interested in another drought-tolerant variety, which is not a new variety of Populus euphratica.

Take the problem of bamboo blooming, for example. Once bamboo blooms, it will die in a small area and is not very contagious. Therefore, although that drought-tolerant bamboo variety is very good, it is also a controversial issue whether it can be grown on a small scale.

Even if it itself will have an impact on the ecological environment, the risk resistance of a single variety like that is too poor. Once a problem occurs, it will not be catastrophic.

Of course, that's just the imagination of scientists. There is still a long way to go to achieve that goal. Gene editing technology is not omnipotent. It has no limitations or shortcomings of its own.