335: Grafting, isn't it something anyone with hands can do?

No, how can grafting technology also be perfectly aligned with his major?!

Seriously, where did Su Yu, this talent, pop out from? How does he know everything?

Hearing this, Jiang Chuan was first stunned, then completely froze.

As a top student who graduated from a prestigious university like Tsinghua, only he knew how difficult it was for someone to master a field.

He had been researching the field of grafting since university, for more than a decade now. Yet, after so many years, even with a group of top agricultural experts in China, he still hadn't managed to conquer the technology of coexisting on the same plant.

Its difficulty was unimaginable to ordinary people.

Su Yu's reputation was now thunderous.

Everything he had said, everything he had promised, had basically succeeded.

It could be said that his success rate in front of the audience currently reached an astonishing 100%. Since Su Yu said he could try, then he truly had a certain level of confidence!

Li He and the others simultaneously looked up, their gazes fixed on Su Yu.

They had been working tirelessly these days, immersed in experiments, forgetting to eat and sleep. So, they knew almost nothing about the outside world.

Previously, when Su Yu rattled off the varieties and types of fruit trees, it startled all of them.

Then, the appearance of the growth acceleration shed directly dropped their jaws!

Now, the other party said he wanted to continue trying grafting technology to cultivate a super fruit tree, and for a moment, no one stood out to refute him!

And Su Yu had only used two things to convince the top agricultural research experts in China.

Having made his decision, Su Yu excused himself to go to the restroom and began searching for plant grafting techniques in his mental system.

Watching Su Yu's departing back, Li He's gaze, somewhat flustered, finally turned to Dean Li.

"Dean, this project?"

Dean Li seemed to know what Li He was worried about. He pushed up his gold-rimmed reading glasses and said kindly,

"Li He, I know what you're worried about."

"Don't worry, although this is currently a national confidential project, I trust Little Su with it."

"You don't need to worry about Little Su's identity. He has a special identity, and with the country's guarantee, there won't be any problems."

Hearing this, Li He nodded and relaxed.

"There's less than a month until the exhibition. Perhaps we can still give it a try."

"If it really doesn't work, then we'll just have to temporarily use that semi-finished product we had earlier."

The semi-finished product Li He referred to was, in fact, the plant they had researched closest to success over the years—the apple-pear!

That's right, as its name suggests, the apple-pear was a product grafted from an apple and a pear.

The reason it was called a semi-finished product was that this apple-pear thing wasn't always 100% successful in coexisting on the same plant.

These were also two fruits they had specifically chosen before the experiment. Because they belonged to the same family of fruits, they had some commonalities.

When Li He and the others first cultivated the apple-pear, and it flowered and bore fruit for the first time, everyone was incredibly excited! Everyone thought they had successfully taken the first step towards coexisting on the same plant.

But who knew, this first step also became the final step that stumped everyone.

Because apart from the first successful grafting and fruiting of the fruit tree, every subsequent attempt was unsatisfactory.

Either the apple didn't bear fruit, or the pear didn't bear fruit, or all the flowers bore only apples, or all were pears.

In short, the situation where pears and apples appeared simultaneously never happened again.

Yet, even so, this apple-pear became their most proud work.

A quarter of an hour later.

Su Yu returned to the experimental field with a normal expression.

Just now, he had successfully exchanged all grafting techniques in the system for 20,000 reputation points!

At first, Su Yu thought grafting was just a simple matter of cutting various plant branches and fixing them onto different tree branches for transplantation. But who knew, after understanding it, he realized the intricacies were not so simple.

No wonder exchanging a skill cost him a full 30,000 reputation points.

It was also no wonder that so many researchers at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences had been experimenting day and night without ever getting results.

Su Yu believed that perhaps in two or three years, with the dedication of this group of experts at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, they would definitely achieve groundbreaking results.

But obviously, without the growth acceleration shed, everyone had wasted too much time in previous research.

But now it was different.

With him here, growth acceleration could be easily handled, and grafting technology would also be readily solved.

"Teacher Li, can you take me to see the experimental field for coexisting on the same plant?" Su Yu's first words upon returning to the scene were exactly that.

Li He glanced at Dean Li, then nodded vigorously.

"No problem, I'll take you there right away!"

Under Li He's guidance, the group walked for another ten minutes before arriving at the experimental field for coexisting on the same plant super fruit trees.

Along the way, Jiang Chuan tried several times to send Dean Li back to rest. After all, the Dean was already over eighty, and his energy and physical strength were far inferior to theirs.

But Dean Li struggled to keep up, refusing to leave.

Su Yu understood that this was the Dean's unresolved issue, and also the obsession in the heart of an eighty-year-old man.

Therefore, his task ahead was arduous!

If he couldn't fulfill the Dean's expectations, Su Yu would also feel deeply remorseful.

When everyone arrived at the coexisting on the same plant experimental field, Su Yu was dazzled by the variety of fruit trees before him.

Peaches, plums, watermelons, oranges, passion fruits, durians, bananas, coconuts... basically all common fruits on the market could be found here.

It is well known.

"Oranges grown south of the Huai River are oranges, but grown north of it, they are bitter oranges." This is a story from Yanzi's mission to Chu.

It means that if fruit trees grow in different locations, the fruits they bear will also be different.

If this is true for similar varieties, then different varieties have even more distinct requirements for their growing environment.

For example, fruits like oranges, pears, and peaches do not have high requirements for their growing environment; they can bear fruit as long as the soil is fertile.

However, fruits like bananas, coconuts, and durians require the help of long-term high-temperature tropical climates to finally bear fruit.

To see dozens of completely different fruit trees in the same place, perhaps only the national Academy of Agricultural Sciences would have such cultivation capabilities.

Yet, even so, achieving coexistence on the same plant still stumped these experts.

Su Yu walked to the edge of the experimental field, narrowed his eyes, and observed for a moment, then turned to Li He and asked,

"Teacher Li, are there any tools here?"

"If so, we don't need to waste time. I can start grafting and propagating the super fruit tree right now."