Japanese scientists have brought tobacco without nicotine!!!

Smokers all over the world likuyut: Japanese scientists managed to identify the gene responsible for the transport of nicotine tobacco leaves. The opening could pave the way for the establishment of cigarettes without nicotine, the researchers say.

We know that such a plant as nicotine in tobacco makes the root system, and then transfers it to the leaves, so if it was possible to find a mechanism that transfers harmful nicotine in the leaves, could be to establish the creation of cigarettes, which on the one hand would like smokers On the other saved the lungs from the harmful elements.

Biologists from the University of Kyoto, in collaboration with colleagues from Ghent University in Belgium have identified previously unknown gene Nt-JAT1, responsible for carrying out the roots of nicotine in vakouli - small bags to store water and nutrients in the leaves.

According to Professor Kazumumi Yazaki, tests showed that the plants, which had been deactivated, this gene is not contained nicotine in the leaves, while the roots of the plants he had attended. "Cigarettes, made of such tobacco in the future will help smokers to get rid of dependence without additional antinikotinovyh drugs," - said a Japanese expert.

In addition, beznikotinovye cigarettes would have been quite harmless to people around podymit fans in the room.

However, Belgian experts have gone further and concluded that the gene Nt-JAT1 can be used not only for tobacco, but in a wider area, such as for agricultural purposes. Instead of nicotine Nt-JAT1 could deliver in the leaves of other necessary materials.

In addition, Nt-JAT1 able to pinpoint the nicotine in tobacco roots for his retirement. Despite their malignancy, nicotine is a chemical group of alkaloids, some of which are derived from plants to fight cancer. In addition, based on the nature of nicotine through the chemical reactions can create higher-order alkaloids that are widely used.