Giant embryo rice enters the stage of laboratory breeding and hypotension rice is expected to be put on the market.

Atherosclerotic red rice and giant embryo rice with the function of lowering blood pressure have entered the stage of laboratory breeding and are expected to be on the public table in the near future. This is the news obtained by the reporter from the opening ceremony of a series of service activities of "2007 Shanghai Science and Technology to the Countryside" yesterday. It is reported that "high-protein rice breeding" undertaken by the Plant Molecular Genetics Laboratory of National normal University has been listed as a key project of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission.

According to the person in charge of the project, Professor Li Jianyue of National normal University, the cultivation of high-protein rice is of great significance in many aspects. The contents of protein and amino acids in ordinary rice are low, so improving the protein content and quality of rice can make people have a higher nutritional level of "eating".

What is more valuable is that Professor Li has added various "functions" to these rice. The special function of giant embryo rice is to lower blood pressure. This kind of rice is not only rich in nutrition, but also contains butyric acid, which lowers blood pressure in its germ. "the breeding technology of this kind of rice has been relatively mature and is now in the stage of expanded reproduction." Li Jianyue said.

Red rice is a kind of natural colored rice, which has the function of anti-atherosclerosis and improving the antioxidant capacity of the body. it is rich in bioactive substances such as carotene, flavonoids, alkaloids and mineral elements such as iron, zinc and calcium. Professor Li crossed high-protein but low-yield red rice with ordinary rice to cultivate "high-yield red rice". It is expected that this rice technology will mature in the near future.

At present, Professor Li is still cultivating "soybean rice" that may lower blood lipids and plasma cholesterol. According to reports, this is a kind of genetically modified food, which takes full account of safety issues in research and development, excludes resistance genes and reporter genes, and is expected to pass the safety assessment of the Ministry of Agriculture in a few years. The health function of this kind of rice comes from the glycinin gene, which can prevent and cure "rich disease". The rice transferred with this gene has a foreign "health weapon".