Your balcony can plant "yellow rose" cabbage

from now on, you can plant "today is a flower, tomorrow is a dish" cabbage on your balcony, watch it germinate, grow up, to next Valentine's Day just harvest!
"a seed that can change the world." Seeds are the most basic and important means of production in vegetable production. As people pay more and more attention to health, the market demand for edible ornamental vegetable seeds is increasing day by day. China's annual vegetable use of about 40,000 tons, but the rate of success to the market is only 60%. At the same time, there is still a big gap between small seed processing, packaging and packaging compared with developed countries in the world.
, Hou Xilin, a professor at Nanjing Agricultural University's Cabbage Systems Biology Laboratory, has effectively overcome these challenges.
"Today is a flower, tomorrow is a dish
after 18 years of breeding "yellow rose" cabbage varieties, the whole plant is like a rose. The plant is 18cm high and has a degree of development of 26cm. Leaves yellow-green, broad oval shape, leaf bubble-like degree. Number of blades 23. The leaf handle is flat and white. Commodity and ornamental is good, Vc content is high. Can effectively resist frost mold, black spot disease and other types of vegetables "persistent disease." The cold winter months of -9.6C can still grow "cheerfully".
Not only that, Hou Xilin told China Science Daily, in a low temperature environment of 2c to -6C, the lower the temperature, the yellower the "yellow rose" cabbage leaves, the higher the carotenoids, more like yellow "roses". However, after the variety grows to 18-20 blades, it needs to grow in a low temperature environment of -2 degrees C to -4 degrees C for more than 15 days before the leaves can turn from green to yellow, and its ornamental value becomes more and more apparent.
vegetables grown from "yellow rose" cabbage seeds are also known as "golden roses". Hou Xilin said that because its harvest node is just in mid-February of the winter, just before and after the Western "Valentine's Day" market opportunities, contains a lot of market value, is the ideal edible ornamental vegetables.
solve the problem of small seed processing and packaging
seed processing is the basic technical measure to improve the commercialization of seeds and promote the circulation of seed market, and is the core of the development of seed industry. The world's agricultural developed regions, such as North America, Western Europe and so on have attached great importance to the seed processing industry, in the high level of seed processing machinery and seed processing technology support, the refining rate of commodity seeds reached 100%.
china's seed processing technology is slow to develop, in the whole agricultural sector, seed roughing capacity of 2 billion tons, but finishing seeds less than 30%. The development of seed processing industry lags behind the development of seed industry. Especially in small seed processing, packaging, packaging, compared with the developed countries in the world there is still a big gap.
Li Ying, a professor at Nanjing Agricultural University, told The China Science Daily that the team used a natural coater developed by it to increase its germination rate to 100 percent when it was wrapped in "yellow rose" cabbage seeds.
the seed after the coat can not only maintain the original shape, its resistance and disease resistance can also be significantly enhanced, germination speed, yield increased. The new coating technology uses crop starch as a film-forming agent, the trigger agent is vitamin C, the insecticidal agent is acetaminophylline, and the warning color is iron oxide yellow. The materials used are green and environmentally friendly, low cost and have broad application prospects.
Li Ying introduced, they use advanced UV spray code equipment, each bag of "yellow rose" seeds for two-dimensional code assignment, to achieve two-dimensional code information anti-counterfeiting traceability, to achieve a "bag of one yard" effect. In order to ensure that the seeds completely isolated from air and light, the outer packaging has internal bags, packaging the whole process to achieve dust-free, constant temperature, constant humidity. Before packing, once again strictly test the net content of each bag of seeds and seal quality, to ensure that each bag is "boutique."
it is learned that Nanjing Ideal Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. and Hou Xilin team, on the "yellow rose" cabbage new varieties of joint development, the company is responsible for the "yellow rose" cabbage seed distribution.
Hou Xilin believes that the promotion of this variety will not only bring the concept of "creative agriculture" into full play, but also promote the "village revitalization" strategy, "precision poverty alleviation" strategy and the implementation of the "Belt and Road" initiative, in order to build beautiful villages, serve the "Belt and Road" along the country's agricultural green development and "agriculture strong, farmers rich, rural beauty" to contribute.