Vietnam successfully produced artificial seeds

Scientists at Dalat Biology Institute have successfully produced artificial seeds. This promises to open up new production methods for Vietnamese agriculture.

Seeds are usually taken from gardens and fields after harvest. It is a sexual seed, created by the pollination process in plants.

Also the seeds, but their location is not in the garden, the familiar field but in the laboratory. These are orchid seeds created in the laboratory in a way that produces asexual seeds. The idea of ​​making artificial seeds 3 years ago. But, it is not until now that scientists at Da Lat Biology Sub-Institute have confirmed that they were really successful.

Dr. Duong Tan Nhat, Da Lat Biology Institute said: "Try to imagine, to have attractive cakes, workers must knead dough, roll and bring them into an oven . Similarly, in the laboratory, scientists must practice every stage and eventually they get the seed. The key here is that these seeds give a high germination rate - this determines the success of the scientific idea . "

Scientists of Da Lat Biology Institute were able to plant artificial seeds in natural environment, not in test tubes. This is a very significant success, because in the long scientific world, artificial seeds often only germinate and plants grown from seeds exist only in test tubes. Here, after sowing artificial seeds, the seedlings grow, then they are planted in the garden. There is no difference between plants grown from artificial seeds and sexual seeds for a long time.

It is not without reason that scientists put a lot of effort into making artificial seeds. Most likely, when artificial seeds are produced, cultivation can be carried out in industrial form. More importantly, artificial seeds are a way to retain the best characteristics of a plant variety. It is also hoped that this approach will be easy to store rare and precious seed banks.

Flower seeds are just the initial results. Once artificial flower seeds have been produced, scientists will continue to find ways to produce artificial seeds of many other crops.