Golden Rice
Key Stage 4 Higher
Meaning
Golden rice is a genetically modified plant which has had the genes coding for the production of Vitamin A inserted into the DNA of a rice plant.
About Golden Rice
- Many people in emerging economies have diets which are poor in vitamin A. This can lead to blindness.
- The plant gene which codes for the synthesises of vitamin A is removed form one organism using a special enzyme and inserted into the DNA of a cells in a young rice plant. This plant is then is then cut to make several clones.
- This will then produce vitamin A in the rice plants preventing thousands of children from going blind every year.