It seems the age of discovering and extracting ingredients from medicinal plants or healing the diseases caused by plants and grasses has gone. It is time to tailor-make safer versions of the plant and grass in the lab! Scientists have developed a new variety of ryegrass. It does not cause the sneezing and itchy eyes of hay fever. This grass would save hay fever sufferers a lot of money.
For creating new strains of ryegrass that do not have the hay fever triggering two proteins, the Victorian scientists from the Department of Primary Industries have brilliantly developed a ‘gene-silencing’ technology.
This low allergen ryegrass should be available in about six years and it would eventually increase productivity in the agriculture sector.
Via: ABC News
