Nutritionally Enhanced Rice to Combat Malnutrition Disorders of the Poor

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue 6 II, 2003, Pages

  Potrykus, Ingo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Golden Rice; High iron rice; High quality protein rice; Humanitarian project; Vitamin A malnutrition

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER; DEATH; FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GOLDEN RICE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; POVERTY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RICE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GENETICS; LAW; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

IRON; RETINOL;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; IRON; LEGISLATION, FOOD; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POVERTY; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0242362760     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1301/nr.2003.jun.s101-s104     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

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2. Ye X, Al-Babili S, Klöti A, et al. Engineering provitamin A (β-carotene) biosynthetic pathway into (carotenoid-free) rice endosperm. Science. 2000;287:303-305.