Title: researcher
Association/Company: ENEA
Speech session
Soilless market
Speech
The Eu Project Newcotiana: Breeding Tobacco For Health
Abstract
The European project Newcotiana aims to modify the composition and, therefore, the use we make of tobacco plants, enriching them with substances with high added value. For this, highly precise breeding technologies are employed, such as the CRISPR technique, applied to the improvement of cultivated tobacco and its wild relative Nicotiana benthamiana, as improved biofactories. In this way, it is intended to revalue the traditional cultivation of tobacco and, at the same time, to improve our manufacturing capacity for health-related bioproducts, such as vaccines, antibodies and other important small molecules with health-promoting properties.
