A new variety of cabbage looks like a yellow rose

It looks like a cabbage from a distance, but it looks like a magnified yellow rose up close. Experts from the School of Horticulture of Nanjing Agricultural University have successfully screened out a cabbage that looks like a yellow rose. More than 100 plants have been bred in Jiangpu Farm in Nanjing, making it a stable population. After a while, it will be able to serve at the table of the citizens of Nanjing.

At the weekend, as usual, Hou Xilin, dean of the School of Horticulture of South Agricultural University, took the graduate students to the fields to "visit" his precious vegetable seedlings. Came to Nanjing Jiangpu experimental base, did not come to the front, the distance a piece of yellow cabbage immediately came into view. A closer look, a cabbage "blooming" as beautiful as roses.

According to Hou Xilin, this is a cabbage material newly selected by South Agricultural University, which has been raised in boudoir for five years. "the growth of piece by piece shows that they have become a stable group, and the time is not far away from the table." Look carefully, it does not look like cabbage, tender yellow color, leaves rolled up, like a beautiful edge of fungus, each leaf has a small sawtooth, touch the leaves a little hard, thicker than ordinary cabbage leaves.

The raw material of this yellow rose-shaped cabbage is imported from other places, but it didn't look like this when I first came to Nanjing Agricultural University. After many screening, experts found its "natural beauty" side, and after several times of "self-intercourse", it grew into such an amazing "appearance".

After four years of "self-breeding", experts from Nanjing Agricultural University planted more than 100 cabbages for the first time. "We use gauze to isolate more than 100 seedlings so that they can pollinate each other and at the same time prevent foreign pollen from 'invading'." Hou Xilin said.

Can I eat delicate rose cabbage? What's that smell? Hou Xilin said with a smile that he can definitely eat it, but because it is prettier than ordinary cabbage and more ornamental, he can make salad and salad.

There are not only beautiful "yellow rose" cabbage, can withstand the "cold smile" of minus 9.7 degrees, the "summer green" of 39 degrees, and the refreshing and delicious "dwarf resistance 6". President Hou Xilin's laboratory has collected 1986 cabbage seed resources, and after mining their excellent genes, experts can carry out molecular design breeding and cross "customized" new cabbage varieties according to demand.