Golden Rice: status and perspectives -VERSIONE ITALIANA
Ingo Potrykus, Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
From 2014 > Tenth World conference - The eradication of hunger
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Golden Rice is a novel type of rice providing sufficient provitamin A with a standard diet to prevent vitamin A deficiency, a public health problem affecting ca 200 million children and ca 20 million pregnant mothers.