Specific Example 2 Plants
Potatoes
Potatoes contain natural toxins. It is a substance called "Solanin" "Chaconin".
Speaking of which, when you eat potatoes, you will cook and eat it after taking the sprouts part.
The reason is to get rid of that toxin. If you eat potatoes containing that toxin, it causes various symptoms such as nausea and diarrhea.
When making potato chips, the workers are doing work to remove the buds of the potatoes. In order to save such time and effort, research was also done to eliminate toxins that come out when growing potatoes at school and home. The goal is to nurture potatoes without toxins .
Therefore, it turned out that the gene SSR2, is related to the generation of "solanine" and "chaconine". However, plants have thick walls surrounding the cell "cell wall". Therefore it seems that it was not easy to reduce toxins by genome editing easily.
Currently, while considering various methods, we will devise measures to make it easier to put on the market.
Rice
Regarding rice genome editing, there was a newspaper article like the following.Mainichi Shimbun article (To Mainichi Newspaper site)
Nikkei newspaper articles (to the site of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun)
Using the technology of CRISPR / Cas 9, Increase the amount of fir in Fukui, increase the size of rice itself, produce It can increase the amount .
