Super or Golden Rice, Recombinant DNA

Golden or golden colored rice is called golden or super rice. In 2000, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology scientist Ingo Potrykus and German Freiburg University scientist Peter Beyer jointly invented golden rice. They created super rice by introducing four beta carotene producing psy (phytoene synthase) genes from daffodil plant, three iron producing genes and crtI (carotene desaturase) gene from Erwinia uredovora bacteria into Japonica rice. Eating this rice does not cause night blindness. Apart from this, there is no anemia in the mother’s body. In 2005, Golden Rice-2 was developed which provides 23 times more beta-carotene. Young boys and girls in various countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, including Bangladesh, are deficient in vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness.

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