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Space breeding yields remarkable results, as space seeds bear abundant fruit
On December 18, in the atrium of a shopping mall in Xinjiekou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, a newly opened space launcher return capsule displayed a bizarre world of fruits and vegetables: a "steel pumpkin" weighing more than 200 jin, "long-legged green peppers" with an astonishing vitamin content, colorful "mighty little tomatoes," ice-cream-textured fiber-free "kung fu watermelons"...
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Space breeding delivers remarkable results, as space seeds bear abundant fruit
On December 18, in the atrium of a shopping mall at Xinjiekou in Nanjing, Jiangsu, a newly opened space launcher return capsule displays a bizarre world of fruits and vegetables: a "steel pumpkin" weighing over 200 jin, "long-legged green peppers" with an astonishing vitamin content, colorful "mighty tomato babies", and fiber-free "kung fu watermelons" with an ice cream texture
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What are the spaceflight soybean varieties? An introduction to common space-bred soybean varieties
Soybean is a very important economic crop in our country. Because it is rich in protein, it is widely used in the market. It not only provides people with rich nutrition, but can also block the absorption of cholesterol. It is a very ideal nutritional product, in cooking oil
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Hangzhi No.1, a new sesame variety, is the only variety in China developed through spaceflight technology.
Variety origin: "Hangzhi No.1" originated from the key project "Ninth Five-Year Plan Crop Spaceflight Technology Breeding" supported by the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1996, parent sesame seeds provided by the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences were carried aboard China's 17th recoverable satellite, stayed in space for 15 days and then returned to Earth. Since 1997, continuous multi-year ground selection was carried out. Through comparative trials on genetic stability, yield, quality and resistance, it was significantly superior to the control. From 2001 to 2002, it was advanced to the national sesame
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