A New Zealand concern called Crop and Food Research said on its Web site that it had created a tearless onion by turning off the gene that produces the enzyme that causes a person slicing an onion to cry. It hopes it can hit the market within a decade. The breakthrough was featured in the December issue of Onion World, the international onion trade journal.
Hip hip hurray for Dr Colin Eady. This is a GMO (technique: RNAi), and probably european countries will object to it (especially as it isn’t europe-made), but who cares?
