Now poppy safe from narcotic misuse
May 19, 2008
Lucknow – Recent researches had are going on the poppy plant so that it is hard to extract morphine from it. This research is taking place at Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow.
The new poppy assortment is the first of its kind in the world, maintain researchers who have been working on it for the past 7 years. ‘Unlike the original poppy plants, easy extraction of morphine is not possible from the new variety developed at our institute,’ stated Ashutosh K. Shukla, a leading scientist at the institute.
Different to poppy plants that give out a sap from which morphine, the narcotic is being extracted, latex structure does not occur new variety, he clarifies. For his work ‘Functional genomics approach towards development of non-narcotic poppy’, Shukla got the Bio talent Award at the only just held Bangalore Bio-2008 biotech event. Researchers said the objective behind raising the new poppy array was to ensure the illegal production and use of heroin and morphine produced from the poppy plant. ‘This novel variety will offer a cheap and permanent natural means for combating opium-linked social abuses across the world,’ he said. ‘We wanted to check illegal trade of morphine, which is converted into heroin. At the same time, we wanted the new plant variety to retain all the medicinal properties of the original poppy plant,’ added Shukla.
He also added the narrative array has alike therapeutic properties as the original plant. ‘As morphine is derived from poppy, it is used in cancer treatment. We have ensured the nature of morphine remains unchanged in the new variety.’ Cancer patients in complex stages are being administered an analgesic that is mainly made from morphine. After developing the new poppy variety, CIMAP scientists are now working to bring out morphological differences in the plant. ‘If we are able to bring external differences between the new and the original plants, it will be of great help to narcotic officials to spot illegal poppy production in the fields,’ commented Shukla.
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