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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
I spoke with John Batchelor most recently about Golden Rice, a groundbreaking genetically engineered crop created by German scientists in the 1980s and ’90s, and hailed as a miraculous solution to ...