Meet Dr Tobacco and learn how tobacco can be redesigned to save lives!

Taking advantage of cutting-edge molecular breeding techniques, NEWCOTIANA will develop new varieties of tobacco to produce added-value compounds such as antibodies, vaccines and drugs in a sustainable manner.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YTporubswk

https://newcotiana.org/dr-tobacco-the-healthy-breed/

Using tobacco to produce ‘allies’ for people’s health and wellbeing is the goal of the Newcotiana project (https://newcotiana.org/), funded with 7.2 million euro by the European Union, in which Italy participates through ENEA.

NEWCOTIANA is an excellent testing ground for New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBTs) and their applications for sustainable agriculture in the EU. The project will produce reliable data on the utility, robustness, efficiency and safety aspects of a group of four selected NPBTs when applied to the breeding of both conventional and unconventional crop traits. As a result, NEWCOTIANA aims to provide industry, policy-makers and consumers with the experimental evidence and the social communication channels that will facilitate the decision making process for the adoption of NPBTs.