biofortification
Sign in to savethumb|The far bowl on the right contains Golden Rice, an example of biofortification using genetic engineering. The golden color of the grains comes from the increased amounts of [[beta-carotene.]]
Research
2,773 papers- Biofortification of Mushrooms: A Promising Approach.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
- Biofortification's contribution to mitigating micronutrient deficiencies.Nature food · 2024
- Biofortification of potato nutrition.Journal of advanced research · 2025
- Biofortification of Triticum species: a stepping stone to combat malnutrition.BMC plant biology · 2024
- Biofortification of iron content by regulating a NAC transcription factor in maize.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Methodology
- Uses
- Low and middle-income countries
- High-income countries
- Problems
- See also
- Notes
- External links
thumb|The far bowl on the right contains Golden Rice, an example of biofortification using genetic engineering. The golden color of the grains comes from the increased amounts of [[beta-carotene.]]
Biofortification is the practice of breeding crops to increase their nutritional value. This can be done either through conventional selective breeding, or through genetic engineering.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “biofortification” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.