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”…… Starting that day, the mall launched a “space seeds” popular science special exhibition. The exotic vegetables and fruits and seeds on site were cultivated through space breeding technology. The seeds underwent “mutation” in the special space environment, which can produce many new fruit and vegetable varieties that do not exist on Earth.