I’ve eaten golden rice and I hope to eat it again—even though a group of judges here in the Philippines just banned its cultivation. The bad news came on April 17, when a court of appeals ...
The three enzymes added to the rice constitute a complete biosynthetic pathway for beta carotene, and the resulting golden-colored grains should provide a good source of vitamin A for some of the ...
Three years ago, the rice-dependent nation became the first to approve commercial cultivation of so-called Golden Rice, which unlike conventional rice varieties produces beta-carotene in the grain.
but so are plenty of other rice varieties (see also: golden rice)—riceberry is essentially a crossbreed between two other types of rice: Hom Nil rice and Khao Dawk Mali 105 (both jasmine rice ...
The present burden, calculated based on available health statistics, is the situation without Golden Rice 2. Next, we derived present individual β-carotene intakes from nationally representative ...