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Sun Xiaolei showed the reporter the work record of the cucumber project group. 
Sun Xiaolei explains the significance of the work of cucumber breeder. 
cucumbers record table. 
Sun Xiaolei showed reporters the work records infiltrated by the water and soil in the greenhouse. character card Sun Xiaolei, female, born in 1956, research fellow of cucumber breeding research group, fruit and vegetable breeding room, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The new variety produced by the project of "high quality and anti inverse facilities cucumber germplasm innovation and new variety selection" has been popularized in 2009-2011 years in 7 major cucumber producing areas, accounting for 35% of the cultivated area of Cucumber in the province, and a social and economic benefit of 5 billion 106 million yuan. During the implementation of the project, 27 doctors and postgraduates were trained, and about 120 thousand farmers were trained.
mass network Ji'nan December 7th news (reporter Jiang Hui Intern Shi Shangjing) "college student Shi Shangjing), I once told a friend that I did not go to the agricultural college. I didn't expect that a joke of that year made Sun Xiaolei's fate with agricultural research lasting 30 years. Recently, the public network reporter interviewed Sun Xiaolei researcher of the cucumber breeding group of the vegetable breeding room, the Vegetable Research Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She told her about the experience of shocking foreign experts from the road of scientific research to the international horticultural conference and the first prize for the Shandong scientific and technological Progress Award.
about the award: the International Congress gave birth to the idea of taking the road to cucumber breeding, and Sun Xiaolei said she was "chosen". "In 1977, I was also working in the two national cotton factory of Ji'nan. I heard that the country had resumed the college entrance examination. At that time, I had to work in class three, but I had to secretly prepare for the exam. I was very tired. So I thought about going to college and learning industry, if only I could invent a new machine to lighten the heavy work.
unexpectedly, Sun Xiaolei was admitted to Shandong Agricultural University. After graduating in 1982, she entered the fruit and vegetable research room of the Vegetable Research Institute of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Under the guidance of Wu Tung, the former director of the vegetable institute, she devoted herself to the research topic of cucumber breeding for more than 30 years.
in 2006, Sun Xiaolei took part in the twenty-seventh International Gardening conference in South Korea and published a speech entitled "the past, present and future of vegetable production in the solar greenhouse". "At that time, after 3 to 5 minutes of questioning, I questioned the following hour, and the foreign experts did not believe how we could grow the warm cucumbers in the winter without a warmer environment." Sun Xiaolei said, "so I wonder if we should join in and reward a prize." Talk to the team: success is not a few researchers, one or two research units, the efforts of the group to achieve today's achievements "you come to interview me, do not only boast of my good. The achievements of the scientific and technological progress award are not made by a few researchers or one or two research institutes, but by the collective efforts of all cucumber researchers. I'm just taking the lead in doing this because of my age and seniority. During the interview, Sun Xiaolei repeatedly stressed to reporters that the first prize of the Shandong provincial science and technology progress award is the team's efforts, not her personal achievements. The efforts of many scientific research institutes have overcome three major problems in the cultivation of new cucumber species together, and have successfully studied the breeding technology innovation based on the core of female lines in cucumber breeding, the breeding technology of female transgenic breeding, the innovation of series special varieties and the efficient matching technology.
the reporter was surprised that the group of cucumber breeding projects in the fruit and vegetable breeding room had only two researchers from Sun Xiaolei and his colleague, Cao Qiwei. Facing the reporter's question, Sun Xiaolei kept silent for a long time and said, "cucumber breeding is really very difficult." Talking about difficulties: Nurturing generations of varieties failed, unswerving from the failure to find experience Sun Xiaolei removed a stack of New Cucumber Varieties from the data cabinet to observe the original archives. As she demonstrated, the researchers recorded the growth and number of all cucumber new species cultivated in the greenhouse every other day. Reporters noted that these records in 2006 were full of water spots and mud spots.
"the environment in the greenhouse is too muggy, and the cucumber shed will drip continuously. These stains are left behind by mud and water droplets in the greenhouse." Sun Xiaolei said that, under such a rapid change of temperature and the pressure of great work, a researcher had got neurasthenia after 7 years, and had to go home for 5 years.
"failure is the biggest difficulty affecting cucumber breeding." Sun Xiaolei said, "breeding process is often 99 times in 100 experiments, and even 100 times are failures. But I believe that it will always be successful. If the three and four generations fail, we will cultivate five generation and six generation. It is common to find experience from failure and successfully breed new varieties in seven or eight years. " Talk about the future: take postgraduate training successors, maintain the high level of cucumber production does not decline, "many people ask me, you studied the whole life of cucumber breeding in the end what?" Sun Xiaolei picked up a pencil and a blank sheet of paper on the desk and drew a big drop arrow. She said, this is their research on the significance of cucumber breeding topics.
"every time we launch a new variety, we will have a variety of varieties in about 5 years, and we need to introduce new varieties to maintain the yield of cucumbers." Sun Xiaolei said that breeding research needs to remain updated at any time in order to maintain the high level of cucumber breeding and not reduce the development of breeding. Only in this way can the overall level of cucumber breeding develop continuously.
as of this year, Sun Xiaolei has been working on cucumber breeding for 30 years. She has been working with cucumber breeding all his life, and she is actively cultivating the successors of scientific research. Today, she is taking two graduate students from Shandong Agricultural University to overcome the difficulties of the new cucumber breeding program.
"I'm 56 years old. I can't work for a few more years. If I can train excellent cucumber breeding researchers, then I will be able to retire. Sun Xiaolei told reporters.