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Introduction: Rice is an important human food crop. It is widely consumed by over half the world’s human population distributed in Asia, southern Europe, tropical America, and parts of Africa. In 2003, it was estimated that the world’s rice production reached 589 million tons. 534 million tons of rice was produced in Asia. The total area of rice fields in the world can amount to 1.5 million square kilometers. The total output of rice in 2013 was the second-highest in the world’s food crop production, just after corn. And the largest export country of rice is Thailand. Rice grows pretty fast and it takes about 3 to 4 months to go through germination, flowering, and fructification. When farmers pick rice seeds, they will soak rice in the water, remove the light, floating rice seeds and keep the others to be cultivated into rice seedlings. It takes only 2 to 3 days for the bud to come out from the rice seeds and it takes only another 3 days for the bud to grow the first leaf; therefore, in areas with a hotter climate, the rice can be cultivated three times in a year. The purpose of this experiment is to prove that Mr. Yuan Lin, the first successfully-evolved New Human Line, can utilize the Absolutely Constant Energy Source (ACES) and the new biological engineering techniques to activate rice seeds and to increase or decrease the germination rate with the hot-energy-state treatment and the cold-energy-state treatment without any change in their molecular weight, structural formula, and conformation, at 25℃, 1.0 atm, and pH 7.0, in a confined and isolated space, and with no contact with catalysts, biologically active substances, chemical substances, and physical action forces.
Results & Discussion: In general, all plant seeds can have the best germination rate at an optimum temperature range. Although the seeds can tolerate the minimum and maximum temperatures, the germination rate would be reduced. The preliminary experiment includes three treatments: the control (non-treatment), the hot- energy-state treatment (with flames), and the cold-energy-state treatment (with ice). All treatments are conducted at room temperature.
Table 1. Comparison of the number of germinated rice seeds among three treatments
From Figure 5, we can see that 30 hours after the rice seeds were planted in the agar medium, the germination rate reached 18% (3/16) for the hot-energy-state treatment group. And 50 hours later, the germination rate for the control group was 37% (6/16), but was only 12% (2/16) for the cold-energy-state treatment group, while for the hot-energy-state treatment group, the germination rate had reached 60%(10/16). As rice is a warm tropical crop, the hot-energy-state treatment can stimulate the seed to accelerate germination, while the cold-energy-state treatment will inhibit the rate of germination.
Rice is a warm tropical crop. Figure 5 shows that the seed germination rate reached 18% for the hot-energy-state treatment group 30 hours after the seeds were planted in the agar medium. And 50 hours later, the rice germination rate for the cold-energy-state treatment group was only 12%, but reached 60% for the hot-energy-state treatment group. Thus, we can see that the hot-energy-state treatment can stimulate the germination rate of the rice seeds, while the cold-energy-state treatment will inhibit the germination rate. It can prove that Mr. Yuan Lin, the New Human Line, can utilize the Absolutely Constant Energy Source and the new biological engineering techniques to regulate rice germination.
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