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Ruth Abatzoglou's List: Golden Rice
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Sep 23, 09
Golden rice was produced by adding two genes from daffodil and a gene from a bacteria. The three genes made it possible for the rice to produce an enzyme that could make Vitamin A
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Two genes from daffodil and one from the bacterium Erwinia uredovora were inserted in the rice genome. These three genes produce the enzymes necessary to convert GGDP to provitamin-A.
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Sep 23, 09
Potential problems with Golden rice is that it could mix with local wild rice strains and other weed relative and contaminate wild or local strains forever.
Other solutions are mentioned such as increase diversity of local diets and supplementing diets with home gardening.-
However, the environmental risk of GE rice is clear. Golden Rice could breed with wild and weedy relatives to contaminate wild rice forever.
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solutions such as increased food diversity, vitamin supplements and home gardening have proven to be working solutions for Vitamin A deficiency.
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Sep 23, 09
Golden Rice is a genetically modified rice with extra Vitamin A. The rice loses it's natural Vitamin A during process it to keep it from spoiling. In rice based societies many children go blind and die from a lack of enough viatmins
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unprocessed rice—also known as brown rice—is not apt for long-term storage.
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In rice-based societies, the absence of β-carotene in rice grains manifests itself in a marked incidence of blindness, disease susceptibility and premature death of small children.
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