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    Aerospace mutation breeding Zhongtian No. 2 alfalfa passed the certification

    • Last Update: 2021-09-28
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    Space mutation breeding "Zhongtian No.


    The above are all photos of Zhongtian No.
    2 alfalfa courtesy of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

    The above are all photos of Zhongtian No.
    2 alfalfa courtesy of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

    Recently, the “Zhongtian No.
    2 Alfalfa” (“Zhongtian No.
    2”) independently cultivated by the Lanzhou Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences passed the approval of the National Grass Variety Approval Committee and became Lanzhou Animal Husbandry The third nationally approved new variety in the "Zhongtian" series of the Institute of Pharmacy
    .

    "Zhongtian No.
    2" has been selected and bred since 2008, with high-quality and high-yield forage forage as the breeding goal.
    Product comparison, regional and production trials
    .


    The new variety is hay yield and high crude protein content.


    According to the team's chief associate researcher Yang Hongshan, aerospace mutation breeding is an important research content of space life sciences, an innovative breeding method, and has outstanding advantages in germplasm resource innovation and breeding material mining
    .

    Lanzhou Animal Husbandry Institute is one of the initiators and standing directors of the Aerospace Breeding Industry Innovation Alliance.
    Since 2008, it has successively passed Shenzhou No.
    8, No.
    10, No.
    11, Tiangong No.
    1, Practice No.
    10, and a new generation of manned Space vehicles such as the spacecraft and Chang'e-5 carried 9 types of 45 major northern forage seeds 7 times, and successfully carried 1 alfalfa test-tube seedling on the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft.
    The types and numbers of grass species carried are domestic and foreign.
    Lead
    .

    Through the identification, evaluation and utilization of the carried materials, the team has successively cultivated three new nationally approved alfalfa varieties: "Zhongtian 1", "Zhongtian 2" and "Zhongtian 3"
    .


    At present, the team is responsible for the collection work of the “New Retrievable Technology Experiment Satellite Grass Plant Space Mutation Experiment Project” in the field of grass (mainly forage) across the country.


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