Which of the following is true for Golden rice?

Which of the following is true for Golden rice?
  1. It is Vitamin A enriched, with a gene from daffodil
  2. It is pest resistance with a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis
  3. It is drought tolerant, developed using Agrobacterium vector
  4. It has yellow grains because of a gene introduced from a primitive variety of rice

Solution

Golden rice is vitamin ‘A’ enriched rice it is generically modified to enhance nutritional value of food.

Golden rice a variety of Oryza sativa is produced through the genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of pro-vitamin A in the edible parts of rice. Golden rice is enriched by introducing three genes involved in the biosynthetic pathway for carotenoid. Thus golden rice is genetically engineered rice with greater vitamin A content.

Asked in: NEET 2019 (All India)

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