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Chapter 689 Computational Seed Science, a sensation in the international biological community, and the transformation of the new identity!
For practitioners in the international biology community, Cell (CELL), which is published at the beginning of each month, is a must-read professional journal. This journal has published many major life science research progresses, and it is the best place to understand the latest developments and trends in the biology world. important way.

On September 9th, in an office of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, Marcin Sheridan was still grinding coffee with coffee beans, and the assistant sent the freshly baked "Cell The periodicals were delivered and put on the desk.

Professor Sheridan quickly made the coffee, added lump sugar to the coffee cup, and stirred it slowly with a spoon. Then, smelling the strong aroma of coffee, he was ready to enjoy this issue of "Cell".

Yes, "Enjoy".Professor Sheridan is a loyal reader of "Cell". He has never missed the monthly issue of "Cell" in the past 20 years, and has read almost every article in it.

Unfortunately, "Cell" mainly publishes the latest research findings in the field of experimental biology such as cell biology, molecular biology, neuroscience, immunology, virology and microbiology, human genetics, systems biology, and more. Most of them are papers on animals and humans. Plants are not the mainstream, accounting for less than one-tenth of the papers, and they are mainly subdivided frontier fields such as cells, molecules, and DNA.

The University of California, Davis is the world's agricultural and environmental science research and education center, among which plant science, animal science, agricultural economics and management science are the most famous. As a professor of plant science, Marcin Sheridan has devoted his life to It is the study of agronomy and plant breeding.How can Professor Sheridan not regret that the "Cell" that I prefer to read does not have many papers in the field of expertise that I am most familiar with?
While drinking coffee, he routinely scanned the cover of "Cell", but unexpectedly found that the cover was a little different from the usual style.

I saw a pair of big hands composed of "0" and "1" and dense mathematical symbols drawn on the cover, holding a small seed that is sprouting green shoots.

"Eh? This cover...seed?"

Professor Sheridan was immediately attracted by the unique cover. He looked at the cover carefully, and saw that the title of the cover article of this issue actually read——

"My God, "Theoretical Model System of Computational Seed Science"? The paper on plants has been selected as the cover article? This is really the first time I have seen it!"

Professor Sheridan was really surprised this time.

Being on the cover means that as a blockbuster recommendation in this issue, the significance is not ordinary.You must know that "Cell" has always been very strict in the selection of manuscripts, and it can even be called strict. It is very rare to be able to publish papers on it. Professor Sheridan has only published three papers on it in the past 20 years. The difficulty is evident.

It is even more difficult to stand out from the [-] to [-] selected professional papers in each issue and become the cover article. At least Professor Sheridan, an industry leader like Professor Sheridan, has not been able to win such an honor.

Professor Sheridan murmured the title again, wondering in his heart: "Computational seed science...is there such a subject?"

He asked himself that he was familiar with all subdivisions of plants, but he really didn't hear about this "computational seed science".

"It doesn't matter, let's take a look first." Professor Sheridan opened the journal with great interest, and quickly found this article.

Generally, there will be comments on the cover article, which may be comments from the editorial department or comments from reviewers.This "Theoretical Model System of Computational Seed Science" is the reviewer's comment.

"The reviewers are Professor Horn Sandoval from Wageningen University and Research Center and Professor Jeron Luciferges from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences?" Seeing these two names, Professor Sheridan again Moved.

These two are world-renowned masters in botany and agronomy, especially Professor Horn Sandoval, who is regarded by the industry as an authoritative representative of computational biology. Professor Sheridan has been in several academic Having communicated with them at the conference, I was impressed by their professionalism.

I saw Professor Horn Sandoval commented passionately:
"When I first saw the name of the author of this paper, my first reaction was, isn't this the two Fields Medal winners who just exposed Obadiah Sean's academic fraud incident! My God, what When mathematicians can come to grab the jobs of our biologists? I read this paper with half amused and half skeptical attitudes, and then I found that I was wrong, very wrong! Rigorous logic, exquisite conception , Amazing creativity! This is undoubtedly a great paper that will change the entire botany. It provides a subversive and highly efficient method of plant cultivation. Solve the 'famine', a chronic disease that has plagued mankind for thousands of years, within 20 years!"

Professor Jaron Luciferges's evaluation is equally ridiculous:

"I can't describe in words what I feel after reading this paper, Amazing! Astonishing! It's incredible, it's amazing! The ancient discipline of agronomy will take this paper as an opportunity to rejuvenate vigorously! I strongly It is recommended that all experts, professors, and even students who study botany read this paper repeatedly and regard it as a classic! But by the way, this paper requires a high level of mathematics. In order to fully understand this paper, I invited The mathematics professor of our school gave me a three-day class to explain the mathematical thinking in it-so please be mentally prepared. Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention that the authors of this paper are two students from Xia Guo. A young Fields Medal winner!"

Seeing such a highly rated reviewer's opinion, plus the fact that the author is a "Fields Medal winner", Professor Sheridan's curiosity was completely aroused. He put down his coffee cup, sat on the office chair, and wrote line by line. Carefully read the contents of the thesis.

After reading for a while, he was completely immersed in the world of the thesis. It was not until the assistant came to remind him that there would be a class he was going to teach soon. Professor Sheridan woke up like a dream. Looking at the time, it was already afternoon Three o'clock!
He worked on the paper for a solid six hours!I even forgot to eat lunch!
Professor Sheridan glanced at the author of the paper for the last time, and silently wrote down the two names "Qin Ke" and "Ning Qingyun", before closing the "Cell" journal, holding it in his hand, and getting up to go Classes are taught in the classroom building.

Along the way, his mind was full of "computational seed science", and the shock in his heart did not dissipate for a long time.

Although he was unable to fully understand the mathematical part of this paper due to the limitation of his mathematics level, judging from the rest of the content that he had read five times, the level and creativity of this paper were excellent, and it could be called It is an epoch-making biological masterpiece!No wonder Professors Horn Sandoval and Jaran Luciferges give it such a high rating!
When he came to the classroom, looking at the crowd of students in the audience, Professor Sheridan still couldn't recover from the shock brought to him by "computational seed science".

He glanced at the textbook "Innovative Application Guide for Plant Cultivation" that his assistant helped put on the podium, and suddenly felt dull.

He sighed, picked up the textbook and threw it into the trash can, then turned to the students and said, "There is no need for you to study this textbook anymore."

The students in the audience exclaimed, and the assistant's eyes widened.

Isn't this a textbook written by the professor himself?Usually, the professor is quite confident in this textbook. He once said that looking at the world, his textbook can at least rank in the top three in terms of plant cultivation. Why is it suddenly thrown into the trash can and said there is no need to learn it?

Professor Sheridan shrugged his shoulders and said, "Don't worry, I'm not crazy. "Guidelines for Innovative Application of Plant Cultivation" was indeed a work of my confidence, but it has become obsolete since today There is no need to learn any more. Not only this set of textbooks, probably, most of the textbooks on plant cultivation in the world will be outdated."

There was another commotion among the students. Some students raised their hands and asked in puzzlement: "Professor, we don't study this textbook you edited, so what should we study?"

Professor Sheridan gently stroked the cover of "Cell", but his voice was extremely firm: "Computational Seed Science."

The students looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally another student raised his hand and asked: "Professor, where does this 'computational seed science' come from? Why have we never heard of it?"

"It's normal that you haven't heard it, because today, the cover article titled "Theoretical Model System of Computational Seed Science" was published in the journal "Cell", which announced that this brand new and great new discipline of plant cultivation is officially Leap onto the stage of the international botanical community!" Professor Sheridan paused, and continued:

"However, I believe that all scholars and students who study botany in the world will soon remember this name, because - it will change the future of the entire botany and even biology!"

The students in the audience commotion again.

Change the whole future of botany and even biology!How could Professor Sheridan speak so highly of this fledgling, untested new discipline?
This is Professor Sheridan!Professor Sheridan, who is known as "No. 1 Plant Breeding at the University of California"!Even if you look at the botanical world of the entire United States, he can definitely be regarded as a master in the industry!

"Botany and even biology are scientific theoretical systems that are constantly evolving and developing. We must keep pace with the times and embrace the latest changes with an open and inclusive attitude! I dare say that no one can do without plant cultivation in the future' Computational Seeds, a great new discipline, who holds on to past experience and refuses to change, will only be like the advent of computers but still insist on using paper and pen to do calculations, and will definitely lag behind the new era and be eliminated in the end! "

Professor Sheridan raised the "Cell" in his hand and said: "From today, I will explain this 'computational seed science' to everyone. Of course, I have not fully mastered this new subject, because I just read it. I will write this paper several times. I will write an email to the authors, asking them to provide relevant teaching materials as soon as possible. I will also suggest to the school to invite two authors to come to our school to give a special report. Before purchasing new teaching materials, I will I will try my best to explain the parts I understand to my classmates and study them together!"

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Of course, not everyone is like Professor Sheridan, who quickly affirmed and accepted the new sub-discipline of "computational seed science" with decades of keen intuition and open mind, and there are many doubts about it. For example, Professor Ali Fitch, a master of biology at Cornell University, publicly stated that the review experts of the paper may have exaggerated the role and significance of this subject, and he will personally lead the team to verify this "computational seed science" to the end. How amazing.

However, as the scientific research leaders and academic experts in the biological field published comments on the Internet, whether admiration, doubt, or verification, slowly making "computational seed science" together with this article published in "Cell" is extremely professional. The popularity of Qiang's papers went straight up, attracting the attention of more and more biologists, especially experts and researchers in agronomy, botany, and seed science.

Xiaguo biology students studying abroad were surprised and delighted after noticing the cover article on "Cell", and organized spontaneously to organize the event that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun held in Xiaguo more than a month ago. The replay video of the national live broadcast titled "Computational Seed Science and "Perfect Desert Sweet Potato"" was accompanied by English subtitles, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other video platforms, and @《Cell》edit Department and several well-known academic media.

Soon the editorial department of "Cell" reposted this video on social media, and praised: "A very good lecture video! It is incredible that the perfect desert sweet potato! After watching this video, our editorial department is collectively grateful , Professor Qin and Professor Ning's great paper destined to affect the entire biological world was published in our journal "Cell"!"

With the status of "Cell" journal in the biological world and the always arrogant attitude of the editorial department, it is rare to make such a high evaluation publicly, which also makes this video, together with "computational seed science" and "perfect desert sweet potato", quickly become popular. After going out of the circle, the number of clicks continued to rise, and it spread to every corner of the world in a very short period of time, causing a huge sensation.

In the video, Ning Qingyun's simple explanation of computational seed science, Qin Ke's demonstration of the application process by randomly selecting questions, and the amazing properties of the perfect desert sweet potato almost suppressed all voices of doubt.

Even the stubborn professor Arlie Fitch of Cornell University changed his attitude after watching the video, and reposted the video, claiming: "After watching this video three times, I am already planning to take back my original opinion." If you doubt it, of course, out of scientific rigor, I will continue to practice it myself, such as first verifying whether sweet potatoes with heart-shaped leaves can be bred according to this plan, so as to determine whether a great and far-reaching impact will happen in the biological world technological change!"

Media from various countries also reported on the news.

"The Youngest Fields Medal Winners in History Have Achieved Epoch-making Research Results in Biology!" "

"The Incredible "Computational Seed Science"!"An incredible new subject combining mathematics and biology! "

"Computational Seed Science from Xiaguo, and the Magical Sweet Potatoes Planted in the Desert!" "

What really shocked the industry were the two top academic journals "Nature" ("Nature") and "Science" ("Science"), which are collectively called "NSC International Three Journals" together with "Cell". "this essay.

"Nature" also wrote a special editorial report, writing as follows:

"It is reported that Xia Guo mathematicians Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who won the Fields Medal, the top award in mathematics last year, unexpectedly achieved outstanding research results in biology. In a public academic report in July this year, the two A young mathematician explained their original 'computational seed science', and using this brand-new discipline, they deduced a cultivation plan to change sweet potato leaves into heart shapes."

"In addition, they announced that through this 'computational seed science', they have developed a 'perfect desert sweet potato' miraculous crop, and all the characteristics and indicators are miraculous! Now many internationally renowned biologists are analyzing , research, and verify the contents of relevant papers and videos, if everything is true, there is no doubt that this will be a great subject and a great invention that affects the entire world, the progress of human civilization, and food security!"

Not only is there a lot of discussion about "computational seed science" in the academic and scientific research circles, but many large international seed companies have begun to explicitly require their researchers to seriously analyze and study this "computational seed science", learn as quickly as possible and Get the hang of it.

Some seed companies that respond quickly even directly snatch those Ph.D. See up directly.

There are also quite a few desert countries who have contacted Xia Guo to inquire about the authenticity of the "Perfect Desert Sweet Potato" and request technical assistance to solve the growing food crisis in the country...

Just when "computational seed science" and "perfect desert sweet potato" created a huge "whirlwind" in the international biological community and even many countries in the world, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, the protagonists in the topic, were still adapting to the current situation. A new life for a professor.

On the first day of school, Gu Bojun, the vice president of Qingmu University, led a group of administrative life teachers to communicate with Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, understand their wishes, and quickly implement the various conditions promised earlier.

For example, they arranged a garden-style detached villa and a 24-hour car pick-up service on campus.

Let's talk about the villa first.

The arranged villa is adjacent to Mr. Qiu's villa. It has a large area. The garden alone covers more than 100 square meters. The lawn and flower beds are well maintained.

The villa is still three floors, and the decoration is antique, with a sense of historical precipitation.

In addition, it has a great advantage, that is, it only takes about 5 minutes to walk from the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, and it is a little farther away from Qiuzhen Academy, but it only takes about 10 minutes to walk.

In fact, Qin Ke originally thought that since it was inconvenient to live in the student dormitory, he might as well move back to their house in Starlight Mingyuan. Anyway, it is not far from the school, and it is closer by car. He and Ning Qingyun were like this during the summer vacation Going back and forth between school and new home every day.

But Mr. Qiu's words changed Qin Ke's mind.

"Qin Ke, after the two of you officially became professors, many things are different from when you were students. For example, you have to lead graduate students and teach students. What if students want to ask you questions after class? And colleagues Door visits will also become more frequent. It is much more convenient to have a fixed residence on campus."

Qin Ke thinks so, so the students and colleagues don’t mention it. At least the students from the former basic science class and the former physics department also like to visit him to chat. He also likes the lively atmosphere of friends.

But the house in Starlight Mingyuan is the private space of the two of them. With Ning Qingyun's character, he would not like strangers to set foot in it, and the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory cannot let students in and out casually because many topics involve confidentiality.

As for the other "Xiaowo No. [-]" of the two, the study room named "Lime Mathematics Research Laboratory", the location is relatively remote, and it is inconvenient for students and colleagues to go there.

What's more, Qin Ke has to play basketball almost every afternoon from Monday to Friday, so he can't go to the student dormitory to make do with taking a shower and changing clothes, right?
Considering all factors in this way, the existence of this villa is very necessary.

The first floor can be used as a living room for receiving classmates, visiting students and colleagues, gathering and chatting, and the second floor can be used as a new "Lime Mathematics Research Laboratory", where he and Ning Qingyun can carry out independent personal research at night , the original "Xiaowo No. [-]" study room is useless, so it will be returned to the school.

The third floor is naturally the bedroom and bathroom. He and Ning Qingyun can live here from Monday to Friday night, without having to rush to their home in Xingguang Mingyuan Community.

So in the end, Qin Ke just rejected the arrangement of the special car, and did not reject the garden villa.

To live in such a big villa, it is unrealistic for the two of them to clean up by themselves. Qin Ke naturally accepted the arrangement of the school's life assistant, but he and Ning Qingyun decided on the candidate.

The so-called life assistants are actually the nanny who cooks, cleans and tidies up the house. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun chose a simple-looking, six-year-old babysitter after a simple screening and interview from the candidate list given by the school. The little girl's middle-aged woman Qingsao.

Mrs. Qing is a relative of a certain professor in the school. She was born in the countryside and went to work with her husband in the capital. Later, her husband drowned and died trying to save others. Mrs. Qing didn't want to remarry, so she dragged her daughter by herself.

Originally, Mrs. Qing was helping with the cooking in the dining hall. Because she was hard-working, hard-working, gentle and kind-hearted, she was also listed as a candidate for life assistant by the school this time.

Speaking of which, Qin Ke and Mrs. Qing also know each other. Every time they eat in the canteen, Mrs. Qing will smile and add extra spoonfuls of rice for him and the boys who play basketball, saying that boys who exercise a lot should eat more to grow taller.

This small detail left a good impression on Qin Ke, and knowing Mrs. Qing's family situation is special, Qin Ke discussed with Ning Qingyun and decided to choose her as a living assistant. The workmanship of the hall is much higher, which is convenient for Mrs. Qing to raise her daughter better.

After discussing with Ning Qingyun, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun considered that Mrs. Qing still had to take care of her daughter, so they simply asked Mrs. Qing to take her daughter to live on the first floor of the villa. Anyway, the room on the first floor was originally used to arrange the stay of servants and nanny.

Mrs. Qing did not expect to be successfully elected as a life assistant, and Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are so good-tempered and talkative, she is very grateful, but she is afraid that her daughter's young age may affect the work and rest of the two great professors, so she doesn't dare to move here.

It was Ning Qingjun who persuaded her for a long time before Mrs. Qing finally reluctantly agreed to move in, but she repeatedly said that if she found that her daughter's ignorance hindered the two professors, she would immediately take the child back to the staff dormitory.

After the life assistant is settled, another important thing is to choose a work assistant.

　I was too busy at work last night, and it was almost early morning when I got home. I really didn't have time to write a complete chapter, so I delayed updating until now, please forgive me!

　　
　
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