{"id":13623,"date":"2004-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20040218-02n"},"modified":"2004-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T22:00:00","slug":"patersons-curse-reveals-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/patersons-curse-reveals-health-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Paterson&#8217;s Curse reveals health benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered health benefits in one of the country&#8217;s most notorious weeds.<\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20040218-02\/echiumplant.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"echiumplant\"\/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usyd.edu.au\/\" >University of Sydney<\/a> has been investigating the medicinal properties of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usyd.edu.au\/su\/blo\/technologies\/KCA2003\/BLSC036_EchiumPoster.pdf\" >Paterson&#8217;s Curse<\/a> (<i>Echium plantagineum<\/i>), and have found Omega 3 and Omega 6 acids in the plant&#8217;s seed oil.<br style=\"clear:left;\"\/><br \/>Albury-Wodonga farmer Harry Chisholm has gone from trying to wipe out the weed to harvesting it commercially. &#8220;Most people that we&#8217;ve worked with or talked to about it are quite excited about it because if they think we can find a market for this stuff, it would be fantastic,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve averaged about a 100 kilos per hectare of clean seed over the few years we&#8217;ve been doing it&#8230; we think we&#8217;ll be actually growing it as a crop in a few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered health benefits in one of the country&#8217;s most notorious weeds.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Sydney has been investigating the medicinal properties of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13623"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}