Question

Golden rice is
1. A variety of rice grown along the yellow river in China
2. Long stored rice having yellow colour tint.
3. A transgenic rice having gene for carotene.
4. Wild variety of rice with yellow coloured grains.

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : A transgenic rice having gene for carotene.

The correct answer is A transgenic rice having gene for carotene.

• Golden Rice is any variety of rice that makes beta-carotene, thus giving the rice a yellow (Golden) color.
  • It was created as an additional intervention for vitamin A deficiency.
• It is a transgenic variety of rice (Oryza Sativa) that contains good quantities of β-carotene (provitamin A- inactive state of vitamin A).
• The Golden Rice Project was first introduced in 1999, when two professors Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer, proposed their project to Rockefeller Foundation to genetically engineer rice to increase its nutrients.

• Currently, Golden Rice Project has 16 national rice research institutions under the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board including those in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, South Africa, The Philippines, and Vietnam.
• Differents types of rice: Arborio rice, Basmati rice, Black rice, Jasmine rice, Brown rice, Red cargo rice, Parboiled rice, Sticky rice, Valencia rice, Calrose, etc.