The Causes Of Golden Rice
Currently, 800 million people suffer from the nutritional deficiencies, with 40,000 dying each day of malnutrition, half of them children. There is much disagreement about the causes of such hunger. Some argue that food shortages arise from inequities in the distribution and that the dire poor simply cannot afford food. Others regard food shortages as evidence that the world is overpopulated that the human species has exceeded the carrying capacity of the planet. Whatever the social and demographic causes of malnutrition, increasing food production is a human objective. Due to the land and water are the most limiting resources, the best option is to increase yields on already existing farmland. Indeed, there is very little “extra” land that
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For example, there is about 250,000 to 500,000 children are going to be blind for each year due to the deficiency of vitamin A and more than half of them will die within a year. To overcome this crisis, a transgenic rice called Golden Rice was generated. Golden Rice is a transgenic variety that containing the beta- carotene which is a precursor of vitamin A. This transgenic variety supplemented with two daffodil genes which will produce the grain with beta- carotene. Besides, there is another target for improvement by the genetic engineering which is cassava. The plant biologists are racing to the mold cassava which is Manihot esculenta into the perfect food. This starchy root crop is composed almost the entire carbohydrates and it provides plenty of calories but it is not a complete and balanced diet. Moreover, it should be undergo a processed to eliminate the chemicals which will release the cyanide and the workers could be sickened by this toxin when the chronic exposure to it. The transgenic cassava plants was developed with the high level of iron, protein and the vitamin A. Besides that, the cyanide- producing chemicals were removed from the root of the cassava
For example, there is about 250,000 to 500,000 children are going to be blind for each year due to the deficiency of vitamin A and more than half of them will die within a year. To overcome this crisis, a transgenic rice called Golden Rice was generated. Golden Rice is a transgenic variety that containing the beta- carotene which is a precursor of vitamin A. This transgenic variety supplemented with two daffodil genes which will produce the grain with beta- carotene. Besides, there is another target for improvement by the genetic engineering which is cassava. The plant biologists are racing to the mold cassava which is Manihot esculenta into the perfect food. This starchy root crop is composed almost the entire carbohydrates and it provides plenty of calories but it is not a complete and balanced diet. Moreover, it should be undergo a processed to eliminate the chemicals which will release the cyanide and the workers could be sickened by this toxin when the chronic exposure to it. The transgenic cassava plants was developed with the high level of iron, protein and the vitamin A. Besides that, the cyanide- producing chemicals were removed from the root of the cassava