Biofortified rice

cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Nutrition, Diets, and Health Uniten_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - HarvestPlusen_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-21T09:50:55Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-11-21T09:50:55Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/160491en_US
dc.titleBiofortified riceen_US
dcterms.abstractRice is the dominant cereal crop in many developing countries and is the staple food for more than half of the world’s population. In several Asian countries, rice provides 50–80 percent of the energy intake of the poor. Because of the high per capita consumption of rice in these countries, increasing its nutritive value could have significant positive health outcomes for millions of people... Breeding programs aimed at producing varieties with high iron and zinc concentrations also seek to combine the high mineral content with other seed and food characteristics attractive to farmers or consumers. Studies by HarvestPlus and others have shown considerable losses of iron and zinc during the polishing of rice. For this reason, HarvestPlus breeding work is focused on increasing mineral levels in white rice.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIFPRI. 2006. Biofortified rice. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160491en_US
dcterms.issued2006en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/126197en_US
dcterms.subjectbiofortificationen_US
dcterms.subjectriceen_US
dcterms.subjectcereal cropsen_US
dcterms.subjectcrop husbandryen_US
dcterms.subjectzincen_US
dcterms.subjectmineralsen_US
dcterms.typeBrochureen_US

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