Tag / vitaminA
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Not quite a normal harvest (2)
An interview with Ingo Potrykus, one of the inventors of Golden Rice In 1992, Ingo Potrykus together with Peter Beyer, started to develop “Golden Rice,” a variant enriched with the vitamin A precursor ß-carotene to help alleviate malnutrition, especially in Asia. The road from the first “golden grains” to the first harvest in 2022 was…
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Not quite a normal harvest (1)
The background to the “Golden Rice” project It has become very quiet around the “Golden Rice” in recent years. Everything seemed to have been said and the work “behind the scenes” found little public interest. But now it has reappeared in the media – for example in a very good article in the “Republik ”…
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