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Golden rice is...

Golden rice is

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a variety of rice grown along the yellow river in china

B

long stored rice having yellow colour ting

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a transgenic rice having gene for `beta`-carotene

D

wild variety of rice with yellow coloured grains.

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Golden rice is a genetically modified crop with enhanced nutritional value. It is rich in vitamin-A `beta-`caratene and was developed at Swiss Federal institute of Technology
If consists `b eta` carotene gene from daffodii plant and also genes from some bacteria. Golden rice prevents child blindness which is caused due to the deficiency of vitamin-A.
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