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Maize to help prevent night blindness

Maize to help prevent night blindness

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June 2009
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Rural21-Vol:43-Nr:4/2009-Article:11
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A team of German and Spanish scientists has genetically modified a maize plant in a way that markedly increases the level of three vitamins in the maize kernels. The level of betacarotene, the precursor to vitamin A, was raised by a factor of 169, the level of vitamin C increased six-fold and the level of folic acid, a vitamin of the B group, doubled.

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