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University of Freiburg: Combatting hunger through not-for-profit project; The leading Project Management Institute names 'Golden Rice' one of its most influential projects in the past 50 years; Combatting hunger through not-for-profit project; ...

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ENPNewswire-October 9, 2019--University of Freiburg: Combatting hunger through not-for-profit project; The leading Project Management Institute names 'Golden Rice' one of its most influential projects in the past 50 years; Combatting hunger through not-for-profit project; The colour reveals the provitamin A content: Golden rice shows a yellow shimmer thanks to the addition of vitamins.

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Release date- 08102019 - Freiburg - Golden Rice is many times richer in provitamin A than other rice varieties. As a result, this biofortified food can counteract the deficiency symptoms suffered by many people worldwide for whom rice is a staple food. Prof. Dr. Peter Beyer, emeritus professor at the Institute of Biology at the University of Freiburg, and Prof. Dr. Ingo Potrykus, emeritus professor at the Institute of Plant Sciences at the ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, developed genetically modified rice in the 1990s. Now the Project Management Institute (PMI) has honored the Golden Rice as one of the most influential projects of the last 50 years and included it in the Top 10 list in the 'Health' category.

In pre-cooked rice grains there are only small traces of beta-carotene, also known as provitamin A, which the body converts into vitamin A. Therefore, people who have rice as their main staple often suffer from vitamin A deficiency. Eye diseases, blindness and increased infant mortality are the consequences. Beyer's and Potrykus's team has used two foreign genes - from a bacterium and from the maize plant - to cultivate Golden Rice. Its yellow color is due to the increased beta-carotene content.

In 2000, Beyer and Potrykus donated the technology behind their research work. They founded the non-profit 'Golden Rice' humanitarian project, which aims to spread the rice variety and thus combat the health damage caused by vitamin A deficiency.

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