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What is golden rice?

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Golden rice is a transgenic variety of rice with an elevated level of `beta`-carotene (provitamin-A), a precursor of vitamin-A. The genes encoding the enzymes of the `beta`-carotene biosynthetic pathway are introduced into rice plant cells in culture. The transgenic rice plants generated produce rice with `beta`-carotene.
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  • Golden rice is:

    A
    A variety of rice grown along the yellow river in China
    B
    Long stored rice having yellow colour tint
    C
    A transgenic rice having gene for bcu otene
    D
    Wild variety of rice with yellow coloured grains
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