15.09.2011 | permalink
Scientists from the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics have produced rice with high enough iron levels that it meets daily recommended requirements for iron intake. [...] ’A lack of genetic variation in rice has hindered efforts by conventional breeding programs to address iron levels. These programs have not been able to achieve the level of iron and zinc in the rice grain that we are able to achieve with a biotech approach in our glasshouse experiments,’ said Dr Johnson.