China Carry Out Research On Goji Berry Space Breeding

“We are currently working on the first space goji berry variety and hope to make a breakthrough.” Medical College of Qinghai University scientific research project Chen Peng told reporters.

At 17:38 on June 11th this year, the seeds of the Chinese goji berry were taken by Shenzhou ten, launched by the Long March two carrier rocket at the Jiuquan satellite launch center in China. 28, 15:10, China Institute of space technology opened the capsule, take out the precious goji berry seeds.

Chen Peng said, Chinese goji berry space breeding is the use of cosmic particles, space microgravity, genetic improvement, weak geomagnetic high vacuum comprehensive environmental factors induced goji berry, with special space environment to produce useful genetic variation. After returning to the ground, the new species was cultivated by further breeding of goji berry in space. “At present, this work has made some progress.”

It is understood that carrying a spaceship to cultivate new varieties of goji berry is an agricultural biotechnology breeding methods. The identification of promising real “seeds of space” from numerous seeds of space is a difficult and complex project.

Chen Peng believes that the next group will be in strict accordance with the research plan of seedling cultivation, observation of the batch of seeds, after selection, selection, planting, validation, “or no surprise, or there is a big surprise”; “If the experiment is successful, it will bring a great change to the Chinese goji berry industry.”

Chen Peng said that there is a lot of uncertainty in space breeding, and then they will consolidate the properties of goji berry seeds, control side reactions, and strive to cultivate the first in the shortest possible space goji berry varieties.