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Mint Variety Useful for Treating Allergies
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| A mint variety that produces very high levels of rosmarinic acid, a powerful antioxidant
and anti-inflammatory. Developed at the University of Guelph.
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| | Posted by: |
| University of Guelph
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| 23 July 2009
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| | Patent: |
| Pending
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| | Project Type: |
| Out-Licensing Opportunity
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| Health and Life Sciences
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| | Seeking / Offering: |
| Collaboration or Partnership, Non-Exclusive Licensing, Exclusive Licensing, Services and Sales
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| | Areas of interest: |
| agriculture, antioxidant, clinical trials, crop varieties and germplasm, crops, disease, foodscience, health, human health, lifesciences, medical...
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Guelph researchers have developed and characterized a mint variety
that produces very high levels of rosmarinic acid, a powerful antioxidant
and anti-inflammatory.
Past research has shown that rosmarinic acid is useful in treating
allergies in humans1, but previously no cultivated plant produced
rosmarinic acid in levels high enough to be used as a treatment in plant
form. The University of Guelph mint produces enough rosmarinic acid
to be effective as a tea, enabling possible allergy treatment via a
functional food.
The mint can also be grown as a source of purified rosmarinic acid,
since it is easy to cultivate and produces high quantities.
- Very high levels of rosmarinic acid in planta
- Low-cost source of rosmarinic acid
- Not transgenic
- Can be grown outdoors in temperate climates
- New functional food (tea) to treat allergy
- Natural health remedies
- Pharmaceutical application
- Dermatological applications
- Food preservative/antioxidant
Partners are being sought.
References:
1. Exp Biol Med 2004 229:247–254
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