Considerable progress has been made on the genetic engineering of rice for improved
nutritional content involving micronutrients and carotenoid content. Golden Rice, developed …

Since essential micronutrients are not produced within humans, it has to be taken via the
food. Genetic engineering provides one such solution to enhance the quality of our food …

A single Agrobacterium strain harbouring two binary plasmids was successfully used for the
first time to develop a marker-free transgenic rice of improved nutritional value. Sixty-eight T …

Vitamin‐A deficiency (VAD) is a major malnutrition problem in South Asia, where indica rice
is the staple food. Indica‐type rice varieties feed more than 2 billion people. Hence, we …

Golden Rice with β-carotene in the grain helps to address the problem of vitamin A
deficiency. Prior to commercialize Golden Rice, several performance and regulatory …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the major staple food crop which feeds more than half of the world's
population. However, rice endosperm lacks pathway to synthesize provitamin A. Therefore …

Golden Rice is a genetically modified rice variety that accumulates carotenoids with
provitamin A activity in its endosperm. This biofortified crop was developed to fight …

Recent research trends on improvement of rice nutritional value are briefly outlined,
including biotechnological approaches as well as alternative approaches based on the …

Carotenoids are a large group of lipid-soluble pigments synthesized in plants, bacteria, fungi
and algae. They are also found in animals. In plants, carotenoids function as accessory …

Food with higher nutritional value is always desired for human health. Rice is the prime
staple food in more than thirty developing countries, providing at least 20% of dietary …