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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.
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:
- Introduction
- The problem of vitamin A defi ciency (VAD)
- The origins of Golden Rice
- Developing Golden Rice as a product
- Current challenges to establishing Golden Rice as an additional VAD intervention
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Where to look for further information
- References