TSU biologists offer a plant to protect against the virus
The staff of the Siberian Botanical Garden and the TSU Biological Institute suggest using dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria) as a complex measure for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. А unique plant from the cruciferous family, its high antiviral and antimicrobial activity were confirmed by the research of Vector, the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology. Last year, a dyer's woad planting was laid in the nursery of nontraditional crops at the Siberian Botanical Garden for research purposes. Given the difficult situation due to the need to protect Russians from the coronavirus (COVID-19), now scientists are ready to grow dyer's woad in large volumes for supply to food workers and pharmacologists.
- Dyer's woad was very popular in Western Europe. In the Middle Ages, natural dyes were obtained from its grass. In Russia, this plant has been cultivated in small volumes in recent decades, mainly as a good honey plant and promising fodder plant, - says Svetlana Mikhailova, associate professor at the TSU Department of Agricultural Biology. - In southeastern countries, primarily in China, dyer's woad is widely used in traditional medicine. This plant is part of complex elixirs, often as the main component for the drugs used to treat flu and other infectious diseases.
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