Fields with rice breeds from around the world grow at the International Rice Research Institute headquarters in Los Banos, the Philippines
2024-05-02 524词 中等
Most Asians eat white rice, which is not very nutritious. Partly as a result, around a sixth of Filipino children do not get enough vitamin A. This deficiency can contribute to blindness or premature death. One solution is to engineer the rice to include beta-carotene, a chemical precursor of vitamin A that turns kernels gold.
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