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New Zealand: ‘No Tears’ Onions
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: February 2, 2008
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.
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