Tuesday, March 12, 2013

GOLDEN RICE

Genetically modified to be enriched with beta-carotene, golden rice grains (left) are a deep yellow. At right, white rice grains.
GOLDEN RICE TO LEFT
There's a kind of rice growing in some test plots in the Philippines that's unlike any rice ever seen before. It's yellow. Its backers call it "golden rice." It's been genetically modified so that it contains beta-carotene, the source of vitamin A.A single bowl of this new golden rice can supply 60 percent of a child's daily requirement of vitamin A.