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Biofortified Golden Rice: an additional intervention for vitamin A deficiency

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This chapter reviews the development of ‘Golden Rice’, a biofortified variety with enhanced β-carotene designed as a health intervention to help alleviate the problem of vitamin A deficiency (VAD)....
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This chapter reviews the development of ‘Golden Rice’, a biofortified variety with enhanced β-carotene designed as a health intervention to help alleviate the problem of vitamin A deficiency (VAD). It also reviews the origins of Golden Rice, product development, as well as current challenges, to establishing Golden Rice as an additional VAD intervention.
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Price: £25.00
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Publication Date: 30 September 2016
ISBN: 9781838792558
Format: eBook
BISACs:

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture, Agronomy and crop production, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Irrigation, Irrigation and water management, Sustainable agriculture
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  1. Introduction
  2. The problem of vitamin A defi ciency (VAD)
  3. The origins of Golden Rice
  4. Developing Golden Rice as a product
  5. Current challenges to establishing Golden Rice as an additional VAD intervention
  6. Conclusions
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Where to look for further information
  9. References